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BLACK metal health and safety barriers plonked on top of a picturesque railway bridge have angered local residents.
The barriers have been put up on either side of the 150-year-old brick bridge over the Exeter-Exmouth railway line at Elm Grove Road, Topsham.
Residents and councillors say the barriers are an eyesore, totally out of keeping with the rest of the area and an example of health and safety regulations gone mad.
But Network Rail claims they have been designed to stop people falling into the path of an on-coming train.
John Evans, 73, of Monmouth Street, Topsham, said he was outraged at the structures.
He said: "The erection of these disgusting metal fabricated anti-suicide barriers has, apparently, been allowed by Exeter City Council in a conservation area — an area where even modest indoor alterations to houses are routinely disallowed by that council.
"In my view, this represents another example where bureaucracy is ruining our lives."
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