Train conductor tells customer: ‘I’d stop having kids if I were you’

A mother who questioned a rail company’s pushchair policy was told: “I’d stop having kids if I were you”. Now Northern Rail is investigating Emma Moore’s claim that a conductor made the insulting remark during a journey from Huddersfield to Shepley.

The mum-of-two, 30, and her friend Laura Musson were confronted by the conductor as they attempted to board the train with their children at Huddersfield railway station after a shopping trip. He told them children in buggies were not normally allowed, but he would make an exception.



While on board, Emma asked him to explain the company’s policy. She said: “I asked him what we’re meant to do if we have children in buggies. “He said: ‘I’d stop having kids if I were you.

“I think it’s absolutely scandalous in this day and age, when people are encouraged to go green, that I’m discriminated against because I have a buggy. To be told to stop reproducing, what kind of an attitude is that? And people wonder why nobody bothers to use public transport.”