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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.
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I wouldn't say I am old, but when I was a youngster, the Dead Sea was still alive.
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