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Cancellations to services between Southall and London Paddington

Due to a person hit by a train between Southall and London Paddington some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled or delayed. An estimate for the resumption of normal services will be provided as soon as the problem has been fully assessed.

Last Updated: 15/10/2014 13:55

London Underground Update

Ealing Broadway Station Closed
The station is closed whilst the police respond to an incident, your tickets will be accepted on the local buses.
This Information will apply from 15/10/2014 13:17 to 16/10/2014 01:29.
This will affect journeys from 15/10/2014 13:17 to 16/10/2014 01:29.

Last Updated: 13:17:59 15/10/2014

Cancellations to services between Southall and London Paddington

Due to a person hit by a train between Southall and London Paddington some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled or delayed. An estimate for the resumption of normal services will be provided as soon as the problem has been fully assessed.

Cross Country are conveying passengers between Taunton and Plymouth in both directions until further notice.
First Berkshire Buses 1B & 2 Slough (Bus Station) - Burnham, First Berkshire Bus 75 Maidenhead - Taplow - Burnham - Slough (Bus Station) - Langley, First Berkshire Bus 76 Burnham - Slough (Bus Station) - Langley and First Berkshire Buses 71, 77, 191, 701 & 702 Slough (Bus Station) - Windsor are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice.
Cross Country are conveying passengers between Reading and Birmingham New Street in both directions until further notice.
South West Trains are conveying passengers between Reading and London Waterloo in both directions until further notice.
Chiltern Railways are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice.

Last Updated: 15/10/2014 14:14

Man dies after impact with train at Ealing Broadway station

There have been four fatalities at or near this station in the last four months

A man was hit by a train at Ealing Broadway station at about 1.45pm today (October 15).

British Transport Police (BTP), colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Service and London Ambulance Service attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

A spokesman for British Transport Police (BTP) said: ^His death is not being treated as suspicious. Officers are now working to identify the man and inform his family. A file will be prepared for the coroner.^

A spokesperson from the London Ambulance Service said they sent a duty officer, an ambulance crew and a single responder in a car, and London's Air Ambulance were also called. She said: "Sadly a person was found dead at the scene. "

First Great Western said the incident happened at 1.40pm today. There were cancellations and delays to trains between Paddington and Ealing but all lines are now open and there are no delays.

Is it not the case that the fast line platform faces at Ealing Broadway remain unfenced as the station has an emergency function should London Paddington not be available?

I seem to remember instances in the past of long distance services terminating at Ealing Broadway then heading back west  when Paddington had to be evacuated and closed.

168.4 m of 1.4 m high fencing grey galvanised fencing to restrict access to the main line side of the island platform (platforms 2 and 3) at Langley; of this 168.4 m, 11 m would be out of compliance and is what the derogation relates to.
There will be four sliding gates within the fence to allow access and egress where necessary between the main lines and relief lines.
These gates can be left open in the rare occasions where services need to call on the main line platforms at the station and or when the station is unmanned, such as overnight.

...........goes without saying that thoughts are with all concerned, seems to be becoming virtually a weekly event on the PAD-RDG line, must be awful for driver's morale.

Sadly it's difficult to know what can practically be done to prevent it once someone has set themselves on a course of action (.....once again I'm assuming it's suicide)

I was of course referring to historic, and maybe current, provision.

Those barriers they have installed are causing us more problems on Sunday, especially at places like Southall.  They are making the main line platforms very narrow and what we are finding is passenegers do not use the full length of the platform, they all congregate  in the area of the rear carriage often standing on the edge of what is a 125mph platform.

Normal service resumes at Paddington after person hit by train at Ealing Broadway

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Twitter user @colin_p_cor tweeted this photograph of the empty departures board at Paddington station

Trains in and out of London Paddington have returned to normal after a person was hit by a train at Ealing Broadway, causing severe disruption..

The incident happened at around 12.45pm, and is believed to have involved the 11.39am service from Bedwyn to Paddington.

British Transport Police confirmed they were investigating.

Initially all lines in and out of the busy west London station were cancelled, grinding all FirstGreatWestern and Heathrow Express services to a halt.

The Tube station at Ealing Broadway was also shut this lunchtime, with no access to the Central and District Lines.

A spokesman for London Ambulance Service confirmed they were called to the station at 12.59pm - but when paramedics arrived on the scene the person was found dead.

A person was killed on the tube tracks at Archway station (http://www.london24.com/news/archway_tube_station_closed_due_to_person_on_track_1_3805767) yesterday morning, whilst a man was rushed to hospital after he was hit by a train at Woolwich Dockyard in the afternoon (http://www.london24.com/news/man_rushed_to_hospital_after_being_hit_by_train_at_woolwich_dockyard_station_1_3806332).

Is it not the case that the fast line platform faces at Ealing Broadway remain unfenced as the station has an emergency function should London Paddington not be available?

I seem to remember instances in the past of long distance services terminating at Ealing Broadway then heading back west  when Paddington had to be evacuated and closed.