National Rail - Think Safe, Stay Safe

Passenger and freight trains passing through stations can generate strong slipstreams. The CCTV footage shows an incident that happened on a station platform with a pushchair that didn’t have breaks fully on. Luckily no one was hurt this time.

We encourage everyone to think safe and stay safe.
Here are few tips to help you make your journey safer:

• Keep well back from the platform edge
• Hold tight onto wheelchairs and apply breaks fully
• When travelling with pushchairs strap in, hold tight and apply breaks fully.
• Hold tight onto portable items such as luggage and other belongings

Video footage:

[jerickstudios]

I was so grateful to see belongings go all over the place instead of a baby!

[swtrains]

That's at Nuneaton, I've seen a container train at Tamworth not far down the line. So basically, I was filming it as it approached, against the wall, well back from the yellow line, and even so it still nearly blew me off my feet... they give off a hell of a lot of turbulence.

[nuttychickenman]

As a father of 3 kids who use pushchairs watching this without reading the description absolutely sunk my heart!!

[nlo]

When a train passes through open countryside, the initial 'bow-wave' and the air the train drags with it are quickly dissipated. This is not the case when it passes through a station with parallel walls. The 'surface texture' of the passing vehicle entrains and accelerates it's surrounding air to higher velocities, increasing the danger, as seen above. It might be a good idea to provide open sided mesh 'refuges' for the use of wheelchair and pram operators.

[djtaylorutube]

I've never for the life of me, understood why airport trolleys holding just luggage, need a handle to be pushed to constantly hold the brakes off, yet a wheeled pushchair with a child, needs active input to apply a brake? Same issue if a parent trips and the buggy rolls away downhill.
This isn't a difficult one to solve.

[afcbgord]

Back in the 70's when Ford Transits were made near Southampton, long, dedicated trainloads on open flat wagons created huge turbulence when travelling at speed through Woking station. Apart from the risk to people on the adjacent platforms the turbulence was nearly lifting the roofs off, to the extent that a speed limit had to be applied. It was some experience being on the central platform when one went through on the up fast line.

[fermitupoupon]

I think the pushchair did indeed "apply breaks fully", I'd say it'd be hard to break it even more fully.

[skellerns]

Thats Nuneaton! It used to have a bypass track to stop freight going through Nuneaton, sadly ripped out now! Madness!

[timconnors]

Gosh, that freight train was travelling faster than the fastest passenger rail in Australia. Our freight trains don't go a tenth of that speed. To go faster would make freight rail competitive with roads based transport, and we can't have that sort of efficiency around here!

[wcolby]

I am constantly surprised by the number of NTSB investigators that moonlight as YouTube users.

[PigletTube]

So glad some underground stations have platform screens doors because those places are more busier.

[aviationtrainsfc]

Those sheds give off so much turbulence, especially on the West Coast Trent Valley as they do go 75 mph alot of the way

[stephenwarhurst]

Same thing happen in Sydney a few years ago the Mother stop and let go of the Baby pram and didn't notice when she started to playing around with her smart phone that the pram was rolling and fell onto the tracks in front of a moving train it was very lucky the baby was unharmed because it fell out and rolled down to the face of platform wall

[muradkurul]

That's why never leave luggages unattended at the stations

[gdwnet]

breaks or brakes? Someone needs to proofread the description.

[Sasa_S]

CANS! CANS! There was no baby, it was full of cans! :D

[diqital_aviator]

Point is, even if a train is going slowly, there's a difference between a car going 60mph for example and a train going 60mph. A car, about a tonne and a half maybe, can get to it in a matter of seconds - a train, even if it can do it in seconds, requires a lot more energy to do so - they might be the same speed, but a train has a significantly larger amount of kinetic energy - so never touch a train moving past, even when it's travelling a few mph.

[pendolinofan]

Omg! It so lucky that the baby was not in the push chair

[md_mark_xtrme]

Pushchair, no brakes on.
Luckily no one was injured.
But as a parent that was an oh noo moment 😢

[Richard-kklg]

Love recording with my young son who loves trains but we are always very careful so powerful