UPDATE: The Public Transport Authority has labelled a photograph of a baby posed on a train track in Fremantle for a photo as “galactically stupid”

The image shows the baby in the middle of the tracks while a woman crouches in front of it to take a photo.

The photo was posted by The Bell Tower Times twitter account.

Some level crossings on Fremantle and Midland heritage lines are so popular with photographers that the PTA have installed signs discouraging the practice.

Camera Icon A warning sign at the pedestrian crossing across rail tracks behind the Roundhouse in Fremantle. Credit: Nic Ellis

While the crossing in this photo is not used by Transperth, freight trains do pass through it.

PTA communications manager David Hynes said placing a baby on a working train track was a “galactically stupid” idea as well as illegal.

“Being on the tracks or within the rail reserve, without a permit and other than for traversing a pedestrian crossing, is classified as trespassing.”