Drax protester trial: Lessons from the Great Train Ambush  The
hijack of a coal train by climate protesters and their ensuing
trial both played out in a uniquely British manner, writes
Martin Wainwright  It was a lovely sunny morning in perfect
English countryside, but somewhere among the fields between the
M62 and Drax in North Yorkshire, something extremely atypical of
this tranquil landscape was about to happen.  I wasn't sure
exactly what, but on the empty lanes not long after dawn it was
easy to guess that the railway line servicing Drax power station
might be in the sights of the climate change campaigners' next
rumoured protest.  Access isn't easy to the completely rural
stretch of track, the sort of winding line which earlier
campaigners rhapsodised about when they tried to stop Beeching's
1960s railway cuts. But after several cow-parsley fringed dead
ends, I saw a man in a dayglo jacket with a red flag at an
isolated level crossing, and in the distance a bridge.  One
heavily laden procession of coal