Man , 32, dies after being run over at North London Underground station by train sent to look for him

He was killed by an electric shock and later hit by a train…. By why they sent a train to look for someone at all makes no sense.

> Mr English, who had walked around 400 to 600 metres along the track from Colindale station, was electrocuted when the power supply was turned back on and later run over by a train that was sent to look for him.

> In the report, the coroner noted that the train “was not adequately equipped to conduct such a search in darkness and this response was inadequate

Not the ideal outcome, but the train did indeed find him.

Can someone knowledgeable on train tracks say if the pictured train tracks have a ‘live’ rail and where is it? I thought tracks like this had the power cables above the tracks or am I out of date?

The way I avoid being hit by a train is by not walking on the tracks.

I’m a signaller on the national rail network and this is standard practice. When we receive reports of a trespasser, we inform drivers to take their train through the area at caution, and keep an eye out.

Obviously if we have it confirmed that a person is lying on the track for example, we stop trains.

Sad to say it as a man has died, but if we stopped trains every time there was a trespasser on the railway we wouldn’t run any trains.