People embracing on platforms do get in the way, let’s face it. There is nothing worse than being in a rush, desperately trying to catch your train and you have to tiptoe round a couple enjoying a very long and selfish kiss! The problem was so bad on the platform at Warrington; commuters would have to perform a dance round all the couples having a long kiss. It is not a surprise that in a fast-paced world where people have no time to slow down and want to get to work/home that something had to be done.

It’s not only people kissing on station platforms that annoy commuters so much. What about the traveller with six or seven bulky suitcases that take up the whole of the platform and get right in the way? Or the mother who decides to go shopping with an extended pushchair with her triplets in who scream through the whole journey? Don’t they block the station platforms? Perhaps we should ban them too?

Not only do embracing couples get in the way, but it’s also not very pretty to watch. Admittedly, whilst on a train, you are considered weird if you so much as smile at another human and have to look at your feet or hide behind a newspaper. But when a couple on a platform start getting intimate, where else do you look? It makes people feel uncomfortable and single people just get depressed. All round, it’s not good for any spectator!

It only makes some individuals feel uncomfortable and if you don’t like it don’t look! When two people enjoy a kiss, they do not think about everyone else around them and whether they are making people feel uncomfortable and it should not matter.

The station does not ban kissing: they would just prefer if they didn’t do it in everyone’s way. Therefore, in answer to this problem, there are designated kissing zones, where a couple can share a kiss. It shouldn’t matter what the setting is for your kiss: have the kiss outside the station and I promise it will be just as romantic!

Kisses are supposed to be spontaneous and romantic. You should not have to plan where you are going to kiss your loved one, or move him/her twenty feet to the left just so you aren’t called selfish.

Romance is dead and has been replaced by cheap promiscuous physical contact. If kissing were always romantic, if it remained a sign of goodbye, hello, or real endearment, then no kissing should not be banned from stations. However, long dead are the times when real romance existed. Now if a couple are kissing on a platform it is nothing more than a display of cheap and vulgar lust, not love. Physical displays of such cheapness should remain in the home, not on our station where our children can see.

It used to be considered romantic: a couple sharing an embrace before one boarded a train and was whisked away from their loved one. No such signs would have been displayed when our young soldiers were travelling off to war, once upon a time. A station platform represents scenes in many romantic and emotional scenes in many of our greatest movies: Brief Encounter; Cruel Intentions and Slumdog Millionaire. It used to be a lovely thing to watch that ended a movie perfectly. Now we’re banning normal couples from kissing on platforms. Whatever next?

Can you imagine if it was enforced heavily? Imagine a couple having a passionate kiss on the platform before he leaves on a train, only to have a scary official tap you on the shoulder and tell you to ‘pack it in’ please go to the kissing section!? It would be ridiculous and would probably get a punch in the face.

A Virgin spokesman said: "It's just a quirky thing. It's nothing more than a light-hearted way of getting the message across.” (1) If this was a problem that was extreme then it would be regulated heavily, but they have expressed that the rules are very flexible. (1) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/no-kissing-allowed-at-warrington-station-ndash-it-blocks-the-platform-1623806.html

Warrington station is not the busiest station in the UK. Paddington, Euston and Waterloo are surely a great deal busier than Warrington station. It would surely be selfish of couples kissing in these stations as opposed to Warrington station as they are heavily congested.

Whilst this is a light-hearted matter, there is a serious message behind the new signs that are attempting to address a serious problem. And if the problem is so serious, the station owners will spend any amount of money to resolve it.

Not only is the kissing on the platform selfish, the people who had a hand in making the signs were responsible for a huge waste of money. In Warrington, the signs were installed as part of a £1 million refurbishment. Although the signs themselves would not have been a great deal of money, it would have been money better spent on new bins or clean benches: anything that would have contributed to the platform without plastering signs all over the place.

Despite what gender the signs show, the message is conveyed easily: that kissing should be banned on the platforms.

Many people who use the platform have commented on the signs themselves. Yes, people who kiss on the platform are selfish and get in commuters’ way; but additionally, the signs are discriminatory and confusing. The sign shows a woman kissing a man: so are men kissing men banned on the platform too? Maybe this was not thought of when making the signs!

One distinction to make here is that just because somebody is kissing you, it does not mean that they love you. In fact, if were to look at the sorts of people who kiss on stations they are not the sorts of people who stay together for any meaningful length of time. If you are going to spend the rest of your lives together in love,. Why do you need to kiss at a station? There is no need for it. The only reason you have to kiss passionately at a station is if you want other people to see. Then the kissing is not about love, but pride. The two concepts are entirely different and Warrington station has every right to stop people displaying this vulgar pride.

Doesn't mean that you should become so bloody bitter. It's one thing if they are blocking your way, and by all means ask them to get out of your way. But if they are minding their own business, then do everyone a favour and mind yours! It's not illegal, and that's all you, the complete stranger, have to know.