Disruption as man dies at station (BBC News)
 

Trains services in and out of Manchester Piccadilly are delayed after a man is killed by a freight train.

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This morning I was getting my normal train from Hale to Stockport. The train to Chester was late "Due to operational difficulties" but I passed it off as a northern train going pop.

Then we stopped at about 8:20 ish outside stockport. The guard came along and announced that there had been a fatality. My thoughts have been with this mans family today.

It now seems there is a spate of them, because there was one close to Cambridge again yesterday. When I was on the railway, they mainly seemed to occur before the festive season, but now it seems, it is both sides of it. My heart goes out to the drivers first, then the 'victim's' families.

As a Guard, I had to attend an inquest back in the 1990's after my driver and I found a guy hit by a train, who died several hours later and after this same Inquest, his father TRIED to blame the railway for his son being on the track and then the driver for hitting him in the middle of almost nowhere, in the dark. The driver of the train that did hit him, reported hitting 'something' as soon as he could, then found out the guy died early the next day, when a Guard he was working with told him, totally unaware, he didn't know what he had hit. As far as I recall, it was very soon after this, the DMU'S had headlights fitted.