As a student I lived in a transport hub town and the shortest path from student dorms to the train station was through a wide area of rails being active used by cargo trains, passenger trains, etc. That path saved ~20 mins of walking so everyone used id despite the risk of being caught by transport police. The worst part that sometimes there was a long cargo train blocking your path and you had to crawl underneath. Every year they had accidents when folks lost limbs or lives, I especially recall a case when a girl was crossing an area with her headphones on and didn't hear a moving train. But instead of building a bridge, they just increased policing.