The station and the adjoining Leighton Gardens have been a hot spot of assaults and robberies over the last six months.

Two violent attacks over the Easter long weekend proved the final straw for Moss Vale station staff, who threatened to walk off the job if something wasn’t done.

RailCorp told Council it had responded to staff and community concerns by employing a static security guard from 9pm-5am on Friday and Saturday nights, from late April.

The guard was a short-term solution and will stop operating on July 4, leaving the station unguarded again.

Increased patrols by Campbelltown RailCorp transit officers and police has seen a drop in problems at the station, Moss Vale RailCorp staff told the News.

Council general manager Mike Hyde said the council would be seeking assurances from RailCorp that if trouble flared up again, security guards would return.

He said he was very happy with the response of RailCorp and local police to the problems in Moss Vale.

“It is an excellent response and the police are being pro-active,” Mr Hyde said.

Mr Hyde ruled out council employing their own security guards to deter antisocial behaviour, citing a lack of funds to do so.

RailCorp’s Campbelltown customer service manager Cory Roeton, who will meet with Wingecarribee Council tomorrow, told Mr Hyde in a May 21 letter, that CCTV cameras for the carpark, platform one, the pedestrian bridge over the station and the garden have been ordered.

The station itself is being refitted to deter break-ins and additional transit officers will be deployed to target antisocial behaviour, Mr Roeton said.

Not surprisingly, Mr Roeton said Friday and Saturday nights had been identified as the witching hours when the most trouble takes place and Mr Hyde said the council wanted to make sure any measures taken were not temporary.

Strategies to fight antisocial behaviour formulated with RailCorp would be part of the broader crime prevention action plan of the Wingecarribee Community Safety Committee due later in the year, Mr Hyde said.

A string of violent attacks over the Easter long weekend and subsequent media coverage on 2ST radio and the News prompted RailCorp to take action on the problems, according to the May 21 letter.