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Title: 'Train delays after sleeping drunk mistaken for dead' (22 May 2009) Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 22, 2009, 18:57:14 From the Reading Evening Post (http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2051315_train_delays_after_sleeping_drunk_mistaken_for_dead):
Quote A sleeping drunk man was mistaken for a dead body when he took a nap on the train line. Trains travelling through Reading were delayed after the snoozing man was spotted on the tracks between Goring and Pangbourne at around 2pm today. First Great Western had to suspend services for up to an hour to deal with the incident causing a backlog of trains. Albert Ryan, a spokesman for British Transport Police, said: ^We had a call at 1.58pm to report a dead body on the line but when police attended they found an intoxicated male asleep on the railway line." The man was arrested at the scene. Title: Re: 'Train delays after sleeping drunk mistaken for dead' (22 May 2009) Post by: Rogang on May 22, 2009, 21:45:46 Spare a thought for the driver who first came upon this idiot - the guy was so drunk and out of it that he looked dead.
Title: Re: 'Train delays after sleeping drunk mistaken for dead' (22 May 2009) Post by: rogerw on May 22, 2009, 21:58:26 I caught a delayed service from Swindon to Newport. The TM announced that the delay was down to what was first thought to be a fatality but fortunately wasn't. It is interesting to hear the full story.
Title: Re: 'Train delays after sleeping drunk mistaken for dead' (22 May 2009) Post by: Don on May 23, 2009, 10:41:55 Thanks for posting this Chris. I also had a late journey home.
Title: Re: 'Train delays after sleeping drunk mistaken for dead' (22 May 2009) Post by: Ollie on May 23, 2009, 11:53:47 It was only by chance a Train Manager spotted this guy. Due to a points failure outside Reading a service was being brought to a stand due to a backlog of trains, and happened to see this guy face down near the line, can't be blamed for thinking the worst.
Title: Re: 'Train delays after sleeping drunk mistaken for dead' (22 May 2009) Post by: John R on May 23, 2009, 12:39:45 Thanks for posting this Chris. I also had a late journey home. And me. This guy caused a lot of people of lot of problems on a bank holiday Friday night. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |