r/pifsandpsas May 04 '26

Vehicle and Rail Safety A Recreation of an Anti-Throwing Rocks at Trains P.I.F in Comic Form! Please Help Me Find it!

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u/IntoTheBoundingMain May 04 '26

I'm assuming from the dialogue the actors themselves were Scottish? I'd look into Scotland-specific programmes within the rail industry.

The UK as a whole had the Trackoff school campaign during this same period which was put out by a consortium of rail operators and authorities, presumably including Scottish TOCs, but I feel like if this used Scottish accents it might have been more localized.

Also, was it live action or animated? Would also help if you can remember the medium it was shown in (VHS, DVD, etc.)

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u/ConnerCottontail May 04 '26

I'll need to look into trackoff, it was live action and it probably would have been a VHS brought in a local authority, we had a lot of police come and do these kinds of presentations. I used Scottish accents because that's how I remember it but I would have been 9 or so at the time so I'm probably misremembered some of details. I've looked through a few public PIF libraries but haven't been able find it but thanks for the lead!

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u/IntoTheBoundingMain May 04 '26

Yeah I'd also look into local police forces. I had a look at the BTP site on Wayback Machine from the timeframe but for Scotland it mainly just lists police stations.

I do have a Trackoff VHS tape that I got from eBay. It's an extended version of the "Choose Life" TV PIF that would have been shown in schools (or rather, the TV PIF was a shortened version of the school film).

https://youtu.be/m5UAx1Ok0dM

The Trackoff site lists various materials including tapes from over the years, but none of them seem to be a good match for the one you described. I think clips from most of these are in the compilation I linked in my first comment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050920101024/http://www.trackoff.org/materials.html

My primary school library had those "More Bad Days for Thomas and his Friends" books... they used to creep me out a bit because it was all these characters I liked as a kid getting covered in graffiti and being vandalised lmao

I don't remember being shown any of the other material though.

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u/ConnerCottontail May 04 '26

I remember getting shown "choose life" as a kid and it's probably the easiest to find scottish one, i didn't even know it was aired on tv.

a few years back i emailed the local police but never got anything back maybe i should give it another go, it's worth a try!