A YOB is believed to have smashed up a shelter for rail passengers with an emergency hammer taken from a train.

Broken glass was showered across the platform at the unstaffed Aldrington Railway Station after a vandal smashed up passenger shelters and a smartcard reader causing £2000 of damage.

British Transport Police officers are now trying to track this group of two men and a woman in connection with the incident at 11.30pm on Saturday February 28.

PC Billy Burstow, investigating, said: “At approximately 11.30pm a group of two men and two women walked up to the shelter on the Brighton-bound platform at Aldrington station.

“One of the men repeatedly struck the shelter's glass walls with a red hammer, which appeared to be the type commonly found on passenger trains.

“Almost every pane of glass in the shelter was broken in the incident, which lasted several minutes. The man also smashed the glass frontage of a smartcard reader by the entrance to the station.

“A short time later the group boarded a Brighton-bound train, arriving in the city centre shortly before 12.30am on Sunday March 1.”

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40, or text 61016, quoting reference S/B8 of 24/03/2015.