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Nearly 20 years ago, I was clearing the snow off the 'barrow crossing' (where we escorted passengers with heavy bags, etc across the tracks), at the railway station where I worked, at about three in the morning.
There was a safety light at the crossing, meaning that if the light was showing it was safe to cross but if the light went out, there was a train coming. However I wasn't simply crossing the tracks, I needed to be on them for quite a long time to get all of the snow cleared and to apply anti-icing fluid to the surface. I kept checking the safety light but I missed it going out. The back-up warning then came into play, with a bell ringing to tell me that an approaching train was just 40 seconds away.
I tried to walk off the crossing but the area I'd just cleared was like a sheet of ice and I slipped. So I was lying on the tracks with a train now only about thirty seconds away. I got up and tried to exit the crossing again, only to slip down again, meaning that I was then lying on the crossing with a train only about twenty seconds away.
I forced myself to remain calm and managed to roll over so that I could reach a less treacherous part of the crossing, allowing me to stand and walk off the other side of it. It was nowhere near as close a call as the guy in the video had but I do know what it's like to be on railway tracks with a train bearing down up one and I can assure you that it's definitely not a great feeling!
There was a safety light at the crossing, meaning that if the light was showing it was safe to cross but if the light went out, there was a train coming. However I wasn't simply crossing the tracks, I needed to be on them for quite a long time to get all of the snow cleared and to apply anti-icing fluid to the surface. I kept checking the safety light but I missed it going out. The back-up warning then came into play, with a bell ringing to tell me that an approaching train was just 40 seconds away.
I tried to walk off the crossing but the area I'd just cleared was like a sheet of ice and I slipped. So I was lying on the tracks with a train now only about thirty seconds away. I got up and tried to exit the crossing again, only to slip down again, meaning that I was then lying on the crossing with a train only about twenty seconds away.
I forced myself to remain calm and managed to roll over so that I could reach a less treacherous part of the crossing, allowing me to stand and walk off the other side of it. It was nowhere near as close a call as the guy in the video had but I do know what it's like to be on railway tracks with a train bearing down up one and I can assure you that it's definitely not a great feeling!
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