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Title: Toddler Falls Onto Track At Bristol Temple Meads Post by: Lee on August 03, 2007, 12:21:08 A distraught mum is demanding something be done about the gap between trains and platforms after her three-year-old daughter fell five feet onto a railway track (link below.)
http://thisissomerset.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=147472&command=displayContent&sourceNode=242195&contentPK=17993375&folderPk=113662&pNodeId=242222 The traumatic incident occurred after a family outing to Bristol Zoo when Jessica Brown , 22 , of Oldmixon , her father , his three-year-old daughter and Miss Brown's three children boarded a train home from Bristol Temple Meads station. Title: Re: Toddler Falls Onto Track At Bristol Temple Meads Post by: g4mby on August 03, 2007, 12:44:08 I'm surprised something like this doesn't happen more often. I hate boarding Class 150s on platform 3 for precisely this reason. The curvature of the platform, the fact that the doors are not at the coach ends and the step up to the door tread results in big gap, even adults have difficulty.
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