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Jordy

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Hi

Wondered if anyone can help me here, my mums friend was travelling on some part of the tube on Sunday 12th Feb, when the train stopped in a tunnel and it was announced that it could not continue due to 'A body on the track', can anyone give any details about what happened.

Unfortunately, I do not know where abouts this occured

EDIT: May be Brent Cross

Thanks

Jordy
 
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..Would be the logical guess. Surely stopping in a tunnel and saying it cannot continue..why not just hang about in the station...silly.
 

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warriorofrovac said:
..Would be the logical guess. Surely stopping in a tunnel and saying it cannot continue..why not just hang about in the station...silly.

Erm... one would assume the driver couldn't see the obstruction from the previous station; if he had done, he would've waited there and informed the relevant staff (line controller etc.).
 
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Seth said:
Erm... one would assume the driver couldn't see the obstruction from the previous station; if he had done, he would've waited there and informed the relevant staff (line controller etc.).

Surely.a train presumably hit the person to begin with though...so the drivers along the line would have been told.
Unless the person went into the tunnel and caught the third rail..then maybe the train would had to have stopped.
 

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warriorofrovac said:
Surely.a train presumably hit the person to begin with though...so the drivers along the line would have been told.
Unless the person went into the tunnel and caught the third rail..then maybe the train would had to have stopped.

If the person had been hit by a train, the service would have been suspended immediately, and the Emergency Response Unit would've been called out to deal with it. It sounds to me like the victim was a trespasser who managed to get 'juiced up' somehow.
 
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And when you get juiced up, you get spruced up, eh Seth? :sign2:
 

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tubechallenger said:
And when you get juiced up, you get spruced up, eh Seth? :sign2:

Burnt to a crisp and in a body bag is probably a better description...
 

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Seth said:
If the person had been hit by a train, the service would have been suspended immediately, and the Emergency Response Unit would've been called out to deal with it. It sounds to me like the victim was a trespasser who managed to get 'juiced up' somehow.
and that happened today.choas

Someone fell onto the Track at KXSP Northern line
Driver tells us that train will remain on the platform
Then announcer says "Stand behind the yellow line" and Security stuff
driver then tells passengers what happened-at that time i left the train,
and i quickly rushed back to find a signal showing green!! :)
Trains were suspended between London-Bridge-Camden Town
then trains were allowed to complete their journeys
then
Bank branch closed and follows with King's Cross St.Pancras Underground being closed :o
Then Circle,Ham,Met are reopened
and the rest still closed
 

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I heard about that. The station was back up and running normally when I passed through a couple of hours ago, though.
 
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