A PASSENGER has vowed never to travel by train again after a second stone attack in a week smashed the window of a train carriage.

Gordon McCallum, 43, is still suffering from whiplash from the first attack but was forced to dive for cover with other passengers when yobs threw a stone at the packed 4.32pm First North Western train from Blackpool North to Scarborough as it travelled towards Rishton from Blackburn.

The stone smashed the outside pane of the double-glazed carriage window but failed to break through the inner glass.

The attack is the second in a week. Last Friday two passengers on a train from Blackpool to Colne were taken to hospital after a window was shattered in a carriage near Barden Mill, Burnley.

Mr McCallum, of Carlton Road, Burnley, a regular train traveller before the incident, was one of those taken to hospital after last week's attack.

He was returning home yesterday after making a statement to British Transport Police in Preston about the first incident.

He said: "It was absolutely terrifying. For this to happen twice in the space of a week is unbelievable." Glass went flying everywhere in the first attack and people had to dive on the floor for cover. Although yesterday's attack wasn't so bad something really needs to be done.

"I've been using trains for years but I certainly won't be travelling by train again after this."

British Transport Police said they were investigating the incidents from yesterday and last week.

A spokesman for Railtrack said they were stepping up their anti-vandal Candid Camera campaign launched in July for the school holidays.