On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:20:12 +0100, David wrote:

A boy did not alight from a train that terminated at Queens Park and
was carried on to the sidings. He jumped down onto the tracks where he
was found by the driver.

A paragraph of a press release from the RMT states "The boy was going
to Kensal Green. When he found himself on the train in the sidings, he
shimmied up and out of the train squeezing past the inner car barrier
(an apparent engineering solution to stop people trying to get off the
trains in these situations) and got onto the track. He could have
killed himself as he was in close proximity to the 430 volt live
positive rail."

Are they referring to the plastic (or whatever it is) sheet that is
hooked between each car? I thought these were to prevent people in
particular the blind falling onto the tracks from the platform.

Why 430 Volts? Do they reduce the voltage in sidings for safety
reasons?