Hellbound Train

An early morning train drama, had me in shock for majority of the morning.

As the train was pulling up into Platform 2 in Melbourne Central, it made a sudden stop... everyone on board just assume it was a Connex problem again, and just started grumbling... 5 minutes of the stalled train, the driver's voice came on, on the PA.. "Apologies passengers, as we were pulling into the station, a passenger had jumped off the platform in front of the train..."

There were gasps from the carriage, and whispers.. and someone started crying...

The rest of us with our earphones on plugged into loud music to escape the mundane mornings, could not escape this announcement...

A lot of important looking people came and looked under our carriage and shouting under... at some point, the located the victim... (under my carriage)... and then everyone on board, on an unspoken agreement, looked away from the windows....

5 minutes later, we were all signalled to get up and move up the carriages and exit through the driver's door...

It was shocking, and it was drama... luckily, we know the victim is alive. Why or how he got in front of the train, and how he survived is a different matter altogether...

Thank you all for your concern and checking on me to see how I was =)

Amazing what the human mind can make you do when dealing with shock... you just feel numb and you carry on to keep yourself as busy as possible and not think about the tragedy that occurred...

To everyone else... have a safe weekend =)