Harrow & Wealdstone this morning!
On 1 June, 18:09, wrote:
From eHarrow Observer 010609
Harrow and Wealdstone chaos after man runs in front of train
Jun 1 2009 By David Baker
The Watford to Brighton service
WEALDSTONE was bought to a standstill this morning after a man ran on
to the tracks at Harrow and Wealdstone rail station.
The 55-year-old from Pinner was detained by police officers after
narrowly avoiding being struck by a train - having called the
emergency services to report a fatality.
It is thought that the man, who has since been sectioned under the
mental health act, reported multiple casualties but no one was injured
by the 7.38am Northampton to Euston train involved.
An air ambulance landed at the junction of Ellen Webb Drive, Masons
Avenue and the High Street just before 9am, while swarms of police and
paramedics were quickly on the scene.
Passengers and commuters at the station were led to believe there had
been a fatality and 27-year-old Nick Morgan of Chesnut Drive said: "I
noticed there was a man wondering up and down the tracks to the side
but everyone was saying that he had been helped on to the platform by
staff and we assumed that was the end of it.
"But when I was on the train leaving the station the driver said we
were delayed because of a fatality on the line.
"Everyone was a bit confused about what was going on really, it didn't
make much sense."
A police spokesman confirmed that the man who had walked on to the
tracks was the same person that called the emergency services.
He said: "We received a call at 8.40am this morning from a member of
the public reporting that some one had been hit by a train at Harrow
and Wealdstone Station.
"Numerous police officers from Harrow and British Transport Police
attended the scene and on arrival it was cleared that all was normal.
"The person that made the call was spoken to by police and was later
sectioned under the mental health act."
The line involved in the incident was handed back to Network Rail at
9.25am while the Bakerloo line was suspended between 8.45-9.23am.
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John Burke
"Passengers and commuters"... aren't they the same thing?
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