Services severly disrupted yesterday morning due to a fatality just 
outside the station. Power was cut to platforms 3-6 for over an hour.

It appeared that no train was involved, so it looked like a 3rd line 
incident - anyone have more information?

Unfortunately Southern couldnt get any of their trains to stop on the 
fast line to collect stranded passengers despite repeated assurals that 
"the next one will be stopping"

After 6 or so fast trains sailed through, we eventually "hitched a ride" 
  (literally - we stuck our thumbs out to a slow-moving Victoria service 
as it was just accelerating having got a yellow and the driver stopped 
and let us on!)

There was a sombre moment on the platform when the emergency services 
carried the bodybag down platform 6.

Regards,


/Neil/
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In message <thqYe.113147$G8.90051@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, at 
04:19:37 on Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Neil Spellings  
remarked:

>There was a sombre moment on the platform when the emergency services 
>carried the bodybag down platform 6.


I'm surprised they did that before clearing the platform. Isn't that 
sort of thing the reason why incidents take so long to sort out?
-- 
Roland Perry