Child falls onto track and is saved by stranger as train pulls into station
It was a close call for the child.
The terrifying moment a young child fell onto some train tracks has been caught on camera.
A brave commuter jumped down onto the tracks to rescue the child just seconds before a train then sped through.
The video starts by showing a child running along the platform followed by an adult female.
Behind her is another child running along who begins to slow down and then stops on the platform.
They they run towards the tracks and then fall down onto them before shocked onlookers turn around to see what has happened.
Several people then run across towards the scene, including a man in high-vis and another man who jumps down onto the tracks.
He then whisks the child up from the danger just seconds before a train comes through.
The video has been released by train company London North Eastern Railway (LNER) as part of rail safety week, which also issued two other videos warning passengers about safety around trains.
It posted on X: ‘Thankfully, they only resulted in minor physical injuries, but some could have had a much more serious outcome.’
Another video shows people getting off a train when a child falls between the platform and train.
Shocked onlookers then gather around the scene before a nearby guard then comes to the rescue.
In the other video somebody is pushing a pram forwards towards the train when suddenly the child in the pram falls out and into the gap between the platform and the train.
Multiple eyewitnesses then run towards the child and they are eventually rescued from the danger.
The incidents are similar to a recent one like in Banbury, Oxfordshire, where a baby’s pram clipped the side of a moving train.
The pram could be seen rolling over the yellow lines at the edge of the platform as people looked on.
Paramedics checked over the baby inside but luckily they were unharmed.
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