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I had assumed wrongly it was like most stations where you were allowed 20 minutes free.

Woman killed by train

A young woman was killed yesterday (Thursday) at Ealing Broadway station, after apparently stepping in front of a train.

She was hit shortly before 10.30am by a First Great Western express service from Swansea to Paddington, which was not due to stop at the station. Onlookers were stunned as staff scrambled to deal with the aftermath of the incident - evacuating the platform and shutting down trains and underground services. Rail and Central Line services were disrupted for around an hour.

Paramedics, fire crews and large numbers of police officers were sent to Ealing Broadway, but nothing could be done to save the victim. She is believed to have been killed instantly by the impact with the train. An air ambulance was placed on standby but was not despatched.

The incident is not being treated as suspicious.

One traveller said station staff had moved quickly to deal with the incident, as people waiting for trains at the busy interchange looked on in horror.

A First Great Western manager said he was ordered to evacuate the station immediately after the collision.

One man, who helps his friend run the Modern Food stall on one of the platforms, said: "It's a real tragedy that this young lady went under the train. I saw them carrying out body bags - it was terrible. I'm from northern Iraq and I've seen war and death, but it's still so horrible to see a waste of a precious life."

Another worker at the nearby Costa coffee stall said: "I was busy serving coffee, so I did not really see anything. Then we were told to leave, but there wasn't really a panic. All I heard is that it was a young woman."

Services were severely disrupted following the incident and passengers trying to use the Central Line were directed to use the 207 bus.

The station was eventually handed back to the control of Network Rail at 11.40am.

At the time of going to press, police had not named the dead woman.

I was too far back to see/hear the tragedy but there was a full brake application from line speed (125 mph) just before Ealing B, stopping well before Acton

The buffet served free hot drinks (but wouldn't sell food).

i wonder why not?

They aren't required to?

Just for the sake of accuracy, there's been a 30/50 speed restriction on the Up Main at Hanwell for the last two weeks (new track, ballast and sleepers), so after accelerating away from that the train would not have been doing any more than 80mph.

They aren't required to?

The MTU's do pick up better than the Valentas.

Do you know how the two compare in terms of where full speed is attained on leaving Paddington?

Man hit by train at Ealing Broadway station

A man was killed instantly after jumping off a station platform into the path of a through-train late on Sunday night.

The driver of the 10:37pm Paddington to Bristol service, which was approaching Ealing Broadway station, reported seeing a man run from the platform and onto the track.

British Transport Police were called to Ealing Broadway National Rail station at 10:48pm on Sunday November 8 and the incident is not being treated as suspicious.

The line was closed for nearly an hour and was fully reopened after 98 minutes.

This latest incident follows the death of Eva Sanders of Orchard Gate, Greenford, last month.

The 51-year-old teacher was hit by a First Great Western express service from Swansea to Paddington on Thursday October 9 after apparently being seen stepping in front of the train.

I was T/M on that service last night ...and i would like to thank the off duty staff who were travelling last night for there assistance, it made my job a whole lot easier.
i would also like to thank the patience of 99.9% of the passengers on the train especially the group of football supporters who were travelling,
I have spoke to the driver involved earlier, who is shaken but ok

Two killed in train accidents

Two men have died after being hit by oncoming trains in two separate incidents at Ealing stations just three days apart

On Armistice Day, a swarm of police cars and ambulances surrounded West Ealing Railway station after a man died having fallen on to the tracks from the platform.

Neighbours report seeing an air ambulance circling in the sky above looking for a landing site at about 1pm. It eventually landed in the Waitrose car park close to the station.

A station ticket officer said a man had been talking on his mobile close to the edge of the platform before he fell. He kept repeating: "It's such a tragic waste of life."

A British Transport Police spokesman said: "The incident was reported to police at 1.12pm and was attended by BTP, Metropolitan Police and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service and air ambulance. The incident is being treated as non-suspicious and on first accounts, it appears to be a tragic accident."

The train involved was the 12.57pm Paddington to Oxford service. The line was closed until 2.15pm when it was handed back to Network Rail.

Only three days earlier, on Sunday, November 8, a man was killed instantly after allegedly jumping off a station platform on to the tracks late at night.

The driver of the 10.37pm Paddington to Bristol service, which was approaching Ealing Broadway station, reported seeing a man run from the platform and into the path of the train.

British Transport Police were called to Ealing Broadway National Rail station at 10.48pm and the incident is not being treated as suspicious.

The line was closed for nearly an hour and was fully reopened after 98 minutes. The bodies of the two men are still awaiting formal identification and police are due to inform next of kin.

These latest incidents follow the death of Eva Sanders of Orchard Gate, Greenford, last month. The 51-year-old teacher was hit by a First Great Western express service from Swansea to Paddington on Thursday, October 9 after apparently being seen stepping in front of the train.

I'm not aware of any trains using the main line platforms at Ealing Broadway, it wouldn't be too difficult to fence them off.

I mean metal (moveable) barriers, just so passengers can't access the platforms.

, so it goes to show, people who really want to do it, will try anywhere.

That logic sounds plausible to me too Ollie, but there is (some) evidence to the contary...

Before North Sea gas was introduced people used to commit suicide with town gas which contained a high percentage of Carbon monoxide by putting their heads in unlit gas ovens.

When we converted to non-toxic North Sea gas experts assumed that these wanting to kill themselves woudl find another way but the statistsics showed that many of them didn't.  the total number of suicides dropped and stayed down for many many years.  (in summary between 1963 and 1975 the annual number of suicides in England and Wales showed a sudden, unexpected decline from 5,714 to 3,693 at a time when suicide continued to increase in most other European countries.)

The "they will find another way" arguement resurfaced as part fo the oppostion to the nanny state restricting paracetamol packs to 16 pills of fewer.  I don't know that the evidence showeds on this yet.
  

Without wishing to trivialise these incidents and therir effect on train crews and other staff. It does seem that they are causing considerable delays whilst the incident is dealt with.
In the sixties when i was on the railways it was likely the tains would be runing again often within 40 minutes, even when the power had to be switched off and on.  However, what that meant was that although the body was moved off the track it was usually left covered up, unless very close to a station, by the side of the track and recovered later. i have passed several such bundles on my travels and unless you knew it could be anything.
One of the problems is that the police seem to treat the site of body as the crime scene, whereas the actual incident most probably took place further down the line where the person was first hit. The site of body being a factor of the speed of the train, how the person was hit and possibly even the front profile of the train. The other probelm seems to be the reluctane to cover the body and recover it later. 
I'm not sure how to overcome these problems as we seem to have different attitude to death than we had in the sixties.
I think the reason being that in the sixties most of the supervisors and managers on the railways at that time had been through the war and had either seen active service or been in the Blitz so were possibly less reverential to a body on the track than we are today. Their main aim being to get the trains running as quickly as possible.

Our GW main line is exasperatingly popular with suicides, I seem to experience them weekly.
I suggest a media solution.
Let NR and FGW only report,
"A person attempted to jump in front of a high speed train at xxx General station yesterday. S/he was slightly injured and after being arrested by BTP was taken to the Royal yyy Hospital A&E where s/he was treated after waiting for 11 hours. Subsequently ATOC/NR banned him/her from railway property for life, instituted criminal proceedings for trespass and civil proceedings for damages in respect of zzz minutes of late running to services."
Like the gas oven, if there is the perception that it might not do the job, then....
OTC

A man died after being struck by a train at Ealing Broadway station on Saturday afternoon.
Police, ambulance and fire crews were called to the busy station at 12:10pm and an air ambulance helicopter landed at Haven Green as onlookers watched in astonishment.
A 45-year-old man from Chiswick, who is yet to be identified, was killed instantly at the scene.
A worker who saw the commotion outside his shop, said: "There must have been around 10 police cars and the helicopter landed and I knew something bad had happened. It was really scary and one customer said he saw the man's limbs on the line. It must have been awful."
The train involved was the Heathrow to Paddington service and the incident is not being treated as suspicious by British Transport Police.
The railway line was handed back to Network Rail at 2:41pm.
A London Ambulance Spokeswoman said: "We were called just after 12:10pm on Saturday January 30 to reports of a person under a train at Ealing Broadway rail station. We sent one ambulance crew, a fast response car, two duty officers and a doctor but sadly the patient had died at the scene."
A file is now being prepared for the coroner.

Line incident

Line problem between Ealing Broadway and Greenford.

Train services are being disrupted due to signalling problems between Ealing Broadway and Greenford. Engineers are working as fast as possible to restore services to normal. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 30 minutes can be expected.
London Underground are accepting First Great Western tickets on any reasonable route.
Last Updated: 24/06/2010 13:51

Line incident

Line problem between West Ealing and Greenford.
Train services are being disrupted due to signalling problems between West Ealing and Greenford. Engineers are working as fast as possible to restore services to normal. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 20 minutes can be expected.
All London Paddington to Greenford and Greenford to London Paddington services will not be operating. Heathrow Connect services will call additionally at Acton Main Line in both directions. London Underground are accepting First Great Western tickets on reasonable routes.
Last Updated: 30/06/2010 12:29

Young policewoman to skydive for good cause

AN ACTON-based police officer is to jump out of a plane for the air ambulance after she experienced their work first hand while on patrol. Police Community Support Officer Hannah Cooper, is part of a special team helping to track down wanted criminals and is based at Acton Police Station. Until recently she was part of the Cleveland Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team.

The 19-year-old, of Sudbury, said: "On Remembrance day last year a call came out saying someone had been hit by a train West Ealing Station. We were walking past at the time and helped give first aid before the ambulance arrived. He was in a bad state, when the helicopter arrived they were amazing, they were inspirational."

It was the first time the young woman has had to deal with such a traumatic incident.

She added: "I just ran to help and then everything was so hands on, so nothing was really going through my mind. I helped hold the drips and do what I could while they worked on him for about twenty minutes until they pronounced him dead. Then I took witness statements and things like that. It was only after things had settled down that it sunk in."

Ms Cooper is planning to make the tandem jump in Cambridge and hopes to raise ^500 for London's Air Ambulance, a registered charity.

She added: "I didn't realise they needed funding for what they do, they need about ^650 a year to keep the helicopter going, so I decided to do a parachute jump for them."

It will be the first time Ms Cooper has jumped out of a plane and the day, August 21, will be especially memorable as she will be doing it on her birthday.

She added: "I can abseil and things like that but jumping out of a plane seems a more scary but I think I'll get over it, I'll just close my eyes and jump. My friends just think I'm a bit of a fool and my mum's a bit worried, but she worries about everything."

Ms Cooper is hoping to smash her ^500 target and has already raised more than ^400.

Visit www.justgiving.com/hannah-cooper-999 to donate or find out more.

Train services between London Paddington and Reading are being disrupted due to a person hit by a train in the Ealing Broadway area.Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 60 minutes can be expected. Customers travelling between Reading and London Paddington are able to use South West Trains services from Reading to London Waterloo. Customers travelling between Oxford to London Paddington are able to use Chiltern Railways between Oxford and London Marylebone. London Underground are accepting FGW tickets on all reasonable routes. All trains at 7 minutes past the hour from Oxford to Paddington will terminate at Reading. All trains at 1 minute past the hour from Oxford to Paddington will be cancelled.Last Updated: 26/11/2010 11:09

Quote from: FGW

Heard it was at AML.

Line incident

Line problem between Reading and London Paddington.
Train services are being disrupted due to a person hit by a train between Reading and London Paddington. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays can be expected.
Services are currently unable to call at Ealing Broadway station. First Great Western ticket holders may use London Underground services between Ealing Broadway and London Paddington.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:21

Service incidents

18:05 Oxford to London Paddington due 19:51
This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Ealing Broadway. This is due to a person hit by a train.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:32

18:43 London Paddington to Oxford due 20:25
This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Ealing Broadway. This is due to a person hit by a train.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:18

19:15 London Paddington to Reading due 20:12
This train has been cancelled. This is due to a person hit by a train.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:08

19:43 London Paddington to Oxford due 21:27
This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Ealing Broadway. This is due to a person hit by a train.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:34

Line incident

Line problem between Reading and London Paddington.
Train services have been disrupted due to a person hit by a train earlier between Reading and London Paddington. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays may still occur.
First Great Western ticket holders may use London Underground services between Ealing Broadway and London Paddington.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 20:06

Service incidents

18:43 London Paddington to Oxford due 20:25
This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Ealing Broadway. This is due to a person hit by a train.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:18

19:15 London Paddington to Reading due 20:12
This train has been cancelled. This is due to a person hit by a train.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 19:08

19:43 London Paddington to Oxford due 21:27
This train will be terminated at Reading. It will no longer call at: Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring & Streatley, Cholsey, Didcot Parkway, Radley and Oxford. This is due to a person hit by a train earlier.
Last Updated: 12/12/2010 20:06

Owing to a person hit by a train between London Paddington and Slough all lines are blocked.

Impact:
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed by up to 45 mins at short notice. An estimate for the resumption of normal services will be provided as soon as the problem has been fully assessed.

Line problem: between London Paddington and Slough
Following a person hit by a train earlier between London Paddington and Slough all lines have now reopened.
Train services running through these stations are returning to normal but some services may still be cancelled or delayed by up to 30 mins at short notice. Disruption is expected until 18:00 10/02.
Message Received: 10/02/2013 17:44

First Great Western @FGW

For Information. Owing to a person hit by a train between London Paddington and Slough all lines are blocked.

Thanks for posting those constructive and thought-provoking comments, trainer.

Wales rugby fans suffer train disruption in London

Wales rugby fans coming home by train following the Six Nations win over France in Paris could face long delays.

First Great Western services between London Paddington and south Wales have been disrupted after a person was hit by a train at Ealing Broadway. Services may be cancelled or delayed by up to 45 minutes at short notice, said the train operator.

Fans returning to west Wales by train on Sunday already faced up to 75 minutes added to journey times.

Engineering work meant First Great Western and Arriva Trains Wales services were suspended between Cardiff and west Wales with buses running instead.

Wales beat France 16-6 on Saturday, their first win in this year's Six Nations.

My understanding is the person in question didn't die at the scene and was taken by paramedics, so I do hope that the person gets the help they need and has a speedy recovery.

Thoughts do of course go to those involved who witnessed it all.

AN ELDERLY woman is recovering in hospital after being hit by a train on Sunday.

The victim, believed to be in her 70s, was treated at the scene for head injuries Ealing Broadway station.

A witness who asked not to be named, said he was on the other side of the platform when she was hit by the fast-moving overground train which was not stopping at the station.

He said: ^I heard a loud bang and tuned around and then I saw something on the platform. I didn^t realise it was a person until I got closer and then ran quickly to alert staff and called an ambulance. She was bleeding quite heavily from her face but she was breathing. The train had stopped further down the track.

^It was a shock. I^m just glad to hear she wasn^t more seriously hurt."

Four ambulances, medics in a motorbike and one in a car as well as the team from London's air ambulance in a car were sent at about 4.10pm. She was taken to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington by ambulance escorted by a doctor from the air ambulance. Her injuries are not thought to be life threatening.

The station was closed for about half an hour.

British Transport Police are still investigating the cause of the accident but say they are not treating it as suspicious.

 
On another occasion I watched a wheeled suit case blow over towards the platform edge as a goods train passed through and thought then that they can create as much turbulence, or more, as a fast passenger train. 

At [snip] have gone as far as restricting access to the [snip] platforms until just 5 minutes before the train departs.  A very good idea, in my opinion, which could be expanded to other stations across the country.

It's already done at Paddington at times, and (there) it results in an sea of people on the concourse

If a train came through Paddington at high speed, it would probably be somewhat safer on the platforms rather than the concourse...

A woman's been killed after being struck by an Oxford to Paddington train at Ealing Broadway this lunchtime.

British Transport Police say: '' BTP officers were called to the line close to Ealing Broadway Railway station on Saturday 30th August after a report that a woman had been struck by a train.

''The incident was reported at 12.27 and is being treated as non suspicious. Medics pronounced the woman dead at the scene. A file will be prepared for the Coroner.

The line will be handed back to Network Rail at 1400

A man has sadly died after being struck by a train at Ealing Broadway station, British Transport Police (BTP) have confirmed.

A witness, who wished to remain anonymous, said she heard a scream at about 9.10 this morning (January 7).

A BTP spokesman said: ^Our officers were called to Ealing Broadway station just after 9am on Wednesday, January 7, after reports of a person being struck by a train.

^Colleagues from London Ambulance Service also attended, but a man was pronounced dead at the scene.

^Officers are now working to identify the man and inform his family.

^The incident is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.^

Early reports seem too suggest woman and child(not confirmed) :'(

Due to persons hit by train at Ealing, our tickets are being accepted on buses operated by @FirstBerkshire and @FirstBSA and @FirstWyvern.

Frighteningly similar to a previous incident at Slough, if that is the case.  :-[ :'(

Confirmation on FGW Twitter:

Two killed by train at Ealing Broadway

Two people, one believed to be a child, died when they were struck by a train in west London.

The pair were said to have fallen on to tracks at Ealing Broadway at 18:10 BST.

Police, who have appealed for witnesses, said they were treating the deaths as "unexplained" and had yet to identify the victims.

Heathrow Express services were suspended, while First Great Western said there were delays of up to 90 minutes to and from Paddington.

British Transport Police said: "We were called at 6.10pm to Ealing Broadway station following reports that someone had been hit by a train. We attended along with the Metropolitan Police, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade and discovered two people had been struck and killed by the train. We're still working to determine the identities of the deceased or how they came to actually be on the tracks."

Mother and daughter, 16, killed by rush-hour train in ^double suicide^ at Ealing Broadway

A mother and her 16-year-old daughter have died after being hit by a train during rush hour in a suspected double suicide.

Both are believed to have fallen onto the tracks in front of the train at Ealing Broadway, in west London, shortly after 6pm last night.

Shortly after the incident, rail workers reportedly had to stop dozens of commuters taking photographs of their bodies.

One witness ^ 26-year-old Lotti Strongman ^ described seeing people trying to take pictures from their phones as well as ^lots of shouting^.

She told MailOnline: ^I was on my way home from work and as the train pulled into the station I could hear lots of shouting.

^I looked over at the overground side and I could see station staff were trying to move people away from a section that was cordoned off and there were people trying to take pictures of the bodies.

^I didn^t hear it myself, but apparently an announcement was made to tell people on the platform to stop taking pictures. It was terrible.^

that really doesn't surprise me. The General Public have some weird morals

Other news sources say the deceased were a woman and 16 year old girl.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ealing-broadway-woman-16-year-old-girl-5937721

See blog at http://ihatefirstgreatwestern.blogspot.com/2008/07/not-very-app-ealing.html

Isn't Ealing Broadway station horrible? Specially late at night. No, actually, let me rephrase that. Aren't the drunk people at Ealing Broadway station horrible?

Last night, after a late shift, I arrived on the tube to get my train to Slough just as the one I was hoping to catch was pulling away, so had to wait half an hour for the next one. This gave me plenty of time to think about station improvements, most noticeably that the dark and grubby nature of the platform I was standing on seemed to give the drunk people the idea that it was okay to gob on the floor, or generally be unpleasant and intimidating. I would like to see a bit more lighting and a bit more seating, perhaps a few more benches further down the platform for those who don't want to sit amongst the beered-up people who always want to talk to you for some reason, no matter how close to your face you put your book.

There are times when I think I'd really like not to have to deal with people at all, especially drunk ones. The way they fill the train with litter and unmentionable stains must rile the poor cleaning staff who have to deal with it. It certainly riles me and I don't have to pick it up or wipe it up - eugh. Perhaps FGW should initiate a "night-status" carriage, which is entirely covered in the kind of plastic that sofas are wrapped in. Much easier to clean, and drunk people don't care where and what they sit on.

Me, I'll bring a cushion. And a larger book.

It's interesting to see how things have progressed though, isn't it?  :-X

Female reported to have jumped onto track in front of train and suffered facial injuries.