One Under at Harrow-on-the-Hill

my thoughts go out to all involved.

Thats why i admire the likes of the ERU who deal with that as part of their job, day in, day out. And someone tried o tell me ERU have it easy!

I send My thoughts to everyone involved.
Having witnessed Near Misses down here I know how it feels.

A friend of mine, Brian Panting, had a deliberate one-under, oh, 25 years go when he was a Picc driver. He has now left LU. He never recovered from the incident even years afterwards. It will no doubt haunt him for the rest of his life.

If you think someone is likely to "jump" one of the best things you can do is alert a member of staff or dial 999 and/or unless you are able to talk to them/coax them away from the area.

If they have already jumped, you can then move any witnesses away from the area and wait for police/station staff to attend.

Of course you should always follow the advice of station/rail staff, police or the emergency services.

The Harrow incident was reported as a near miss by the previous train and station staff were dealing, when the person jumped.

This isnt what the rule book says but just common sense

The number of "one unders" thankfully, seems to be on the decline. I remember the East end having a fair number of them, Bethnal Green, Mile End [not the incident referred to above] etc. Stations near hospitals also suffer as well, for obvious reasons.

Let's just hope the chap didn't feel the need to do such a thing after failing to attain the nationally celebrated A-level passes.

There are of course many many reasons both rational and irrational for why people choose to take their own life and in this way. Many of which, plus the experience of others was gone into at some great length in a past thread.

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Without making light of this matter it is all very shocking to everyone involved, but please, the weather is miserable enough without another morbid thread. That one went to 7 pages and as can be seen was exhausted to the point of argument.

Back when we had them, if a Motorman was asked what he wanted for Christmas the stock answer was "A jumper". ;D

However, that would probably upset the PC types these days (if they knew what it meant).

There was a butcher's son who took a dive at Oxford Circus in the days of Standard Stock on the Central Line (not me. Mine were on the Picc and Circle). It was just before Christmas. He had stolen the Xmas Club money from his father's shop and then had second thoughts. When he hit the front of the train, his pockets burst open and pound notes were blowing about all over the station. Poor B****r didn't survive and less than half of his father's £600 was ever found! In those days, £9 was a big week, before tax.