Graceland

an incident at 4:20am on the line this morning

was working the 03:10 from manchester airport to blackpool north, left preston at 04:15, everything going nice and well, then get about 1.5 miles out of preston towards kirkam and wesham and then the driver throws the brake into emergency, i hear a thud from the front of the train and then a loud bang from under my rear cab and see somthing come out the back, rung the driver and he said he had hit "something", told him i'd protect the line, go back inspect and contact the signaller.

on walking back towards the signal post telephone to contact preston box, while inspecting the line, my worst fears acomb - we had hit someone and, well, suffice for the injuries, and the smell - the stench, he/she was dead, and in more than one piece.

i carried out all the relevant procedure according to the rulebook and the police attended etc etc, continued to blackpool and now just got home after filling in all the paperwork etc etc - and its only just starting to sink in whats happened. i'm shaking like a shitting dog, feel sick, crying and wimpering like a baby - think a state of shock has set in

work are very supportive - manager has said take as long as i need, and same goes for the driver, altho he didnt come to inspect the line due to been a bit distressed at the time, offered councilling which i will be taking i think.

just needed somewhere to get it off my chest - the first of many suicides no doubt for my career

Nath

Oh shit m8, I dont know what to say but if talking about it helps then you know what you need to do ....

croakey

not nice mate....

sad that people need to do it in the first place.

danvisteon

take it easy it must have been aweful for you, i can't imagine what it was like

Rhys

As said mate not much you could have done. imo peeps who chuck them self under trains or anyother forms of suicide that affect other peeps are cowards At least if u want to do it gas yourself in a car or somthing so no one else gets caught up in it.



But as said thats one hell of a road kill jk btw not being serious

Anz_

its things like this that u prob woudlnt think would bother u but when it happens i can imagine its pretty upsetting

pee vee

fookin hell man. sorry to hear

Ginge !

my mates dad used to work for british rails clean up crew at kingscross


the would clean up the trains and carry on without telling people what happened


also when i was in secondry school there was a kid whos parents where going through a divorse and was constantly arguing and he couldnt handle it

remember him muttering on in a science lessen hed had enough of it, you could see the way he was too, he really changed


anyway 3 days later he got hit by a train, the police said they couldnt confirm if he got trapped or he do it himself



makes ya think people


oh kings cross has loads as theres a mental hospital around there , lot of them deicde enough is enough

ifs theres anything i can do them just pm me

Fil

im allways relived when i find out it a suiside, thats there problem, then ours when they fuck up a train, it the people who fall or get pushed that i hate

think we have an avarge of 6ish suisides a month, but that allways increases around christmas time

Ginge !

actually funny you shoudl say that, one of my customers when i managed a cycle shop split with his wife and she went with her bloke, she mad all kinds of allegations abiut him being a nonse ect and he was the coach of a boys football team for years ect, he got so depressed about it and not only got suspended from his job ect he was gonna loose his kid ( he lived with him during the weekend ya see)

he gassed himself and his boy found him 2 days later

Stavros

A year n a bit ago i went for a job as a driver n they said your 100% to hit someone every, i think 4 years or somthing crazy, thats how common it is.

I dont think itd affect me tho, death doesnt seem to anymore

Greg Shepherd

dont now what to say m8
not a nice thing to see

JamesH

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shit mate


if ya need to chat about it pauly just lemme know

Coldo

Don't really know what to say... but unlucky.

It's sad that a "coward" for want of a better word, has to make others live with the memory of something like this.

Chin up mate, get on with life, gaurenteed this will make you respect life more, as it can be over as quick as it started.

Keith B

I once read that workin on the line is one of most stressful jobs precisely because of what you describe happened. My bro in law used to drive trains and some stupid drunk guy did a train dodge infront of his train. He was a bit of a state for a while after that. Hope you feel better soon matey.

gurnE

Was it on a level crossing

Sorry to hear you're upset mate.

Try not to feel to bad if some daft fucker wants to dance with a train.

Nothing you could have done

Graceland

thanks for the thoughts and replys people - i'll be alrite soon i think, just not exactley in the mood for going back to work just yet, and when i do, the first thing that happens is i work a train over the route that it happened on - standard procedure i think that

ahh well, might even be able to get some sleep tonight and eat something today

Stu @ M Developments

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Wounder pal, sorry to read this

TIFF

Not nice mate

R4N SS

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sorry to hear it pal

Project ST

Jeeesus dude, that's proper gash

Like gurnE says though, it's not worth worrying about - ain't your drama to worry about mate, and it sounds like you've got your head screwed on properly if you did all your procedures properly.

Look at it this way mate - it ain't gonna make you pregnant

Seriously, don't stress it, k?

/pervmunki

AlexF

Really sorry for you mate

TomSi

Hell of a thing to experience at work, hope you can get over it.

Dunno if you'll remember me, but its Sphinx of fiestaturbo.com. i'm up in huddersfield for uni, you were telling me where all the local scrappies were

Paul_RS

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Not good

I remeber when i was younger, the IRA bomber our town killing a police woman. Any way couple of days later i was down with my parents and i saw bits of her in the gutter that had been washed out by the rain. Its not nice.