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Wiltshire 999Man airlifted to hospital after Trowbridge railway station incident
South Western Ambulance Service sent two crews to reports of a serious medical emergency at around 7.20am on Sunday (6 April).
Medics provided critical care to a man, who reportedly collapsed at the railway station.
He was stabilised before being put into the air ambulance and flown to Bristol Royal Infirmary for further treatment.
Around a dozen people stopped to watch the helicopter land and take off, many filming the sight on their mobile phones.
This does not "read" as a rail-specific incident to me but rather as someone being taken very ill at a railway station. There will often be lots of people around at stations, and whilst people are encourage not to travel if they are not well enough todo so, incidents WILL happen
Over time, I have seen advice more from "stop the train with the emergency chord" to "wait for the next station" and indeed I don't thing that there's a direct connection any longer from the "communication chord" to train brakes. I presume (and I'm sure someone can help me with links) that there are well tuned plans that come into play where a passenger or other person is taken ill on a train or at or near a station - and being a cluster spot, planned places for ambulances of the road or air type topics up?
I note that it was the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and not the Wilthshire and Bath one. Covering for each other?
Hoping the person has come through the incident ...
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