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Cancellations to services at Bodmin Parkway
Due to a person hit by a train at Bodmin Parkway all lines are blocked.
Impact:
Train services running through this station may be cancelled, delayed by up to 20 mins or revised. Disruption is expected until 23:00 25/04.
Last Updated: 25/04/2015 22:56

21:18 Newquay to Plymouth due 23:12
This train will be terminated at Par.
This train will no longer call at Lostwithiel, Bodmin Parkway, Liskeard, Menheniot, St Germans, Saltash, St Budeaux Ferry Road, Keyham, Dockyard, Devonport and Plymouth.
This is due to a person hit by a train.
Additional Information:
Taxis will call at stations from Par to Plymouth.

Faralities do go down against Network Rail....so I guess they compensate. I do have some sympathy for NR on this point. It's hardly their fault

Ahh I see, a link to a topic here. I thought perhaps it would be a link to another forum with more information. Strange that the fatality at Bodmin has had no press coverage. I won't repeat rumours I've heard, except to say the circumstances sounded unusual.

Two friends of mine were passengers on that service at Bodmin. I wont be posting or commenting what they told me, but it certainly sounded unusual. it was from them how I knew of the incident before journey planner.

We got told there had been a fatality at Bodmin when arriving into truro. I have to say they were very swift in organising replacement taxis. I wonder because it was a xc service the fgw station staff thought oh well send the bill to them?

Interesting and reflects a discussion on another thread - so NR do pick up the bill and compensate FGW in these circumstances - I wonder why therefore FGW stridently refuse to refund customers who seek alternative arrangements via taxi in similar circumstances under the catch call "consequential losses" line - although having said that on both occasions I've been caught up in fatality related delays and caught a taxi FGW have refunded me after I've written in requesting it so maybe it's just a device to put people off? Certainly I always advise people to claim if they've jumped in cab during disruption whatever the circumstances.

I would expect a invoiced based account is used with approved taxi firms. They certainly don't pay cash there and then for taxis they use. Its a lot easier to have one big invoice to pay rather than loads of small fares.

No doubt - so next time I am stranded in Reading due to rail delays I will find out which these approved firms are, and rather than paying them myself I will tell them to charge it to FGW, will save a lot of faffing around/admin on both sides with me asking for refunds and them sending me vouchers!  :)

Rail staff have authorisation forms which form an audit trail, which the taxi firms need to have to make the charge back. Otherwise people stranded in Reading could each grab themselves a taxi, and you'd end up with four taxis all going to [insert place] where one would do.   And you would want to help be sustainable and share, wouldn't you  ;).

Absolutely, whilst Network Rail staff fly to meetings rather than get the train, I'd be more than happy to "slum it" and share a cab to get to mine!  ;)

Chef at Rick Stein's crushed by train after running for coffee

A chef at Rick Stein^s restaurant was crushed to death by a train after chasing it to rescue his coffee.

Kyle Kusano-Puffett, from Padstow, died on April 25 after going out drinking with a friend.

The inquest into his death heard how he had climbed out of the train window when it arrived at Bodmin Parkway station and put his coffee above the door.

But as the train departed, he realised he^d left his hot drink behind and chased after it ^ only to fall under the carriage.

The hearing was told Mr Kusano-Puffett suffered severe head injuries and rib fractures as a result of being crushed.

Dr Paul Smith, a toxicologist, found Mr Kusano-Puffett had 219mg of alcohol on his blood ^ the drink-drive limit is 80. He also had 235mg of MDMA per 100ml of blood at the time of his death.

Coroner Barrie van den Berg recorded a verdict of accidental death.

^I come to the obvious conclusion that this was an accident. Sometimes when you have a few drinks what seems like a good idea then is a tragic idea later.^

Mr Kusano-Puffett^s father, Roger Puffett paid tribute to his son. He said: ^We lived an adventurous life. I don^t think that life will ever be idiot proof. People drink, my son drank and it^s unfortunate.^