Indeed, Rogang: thank you for posting here so sympathetically about this sad incident.
From the
Ealing Gazette:
Woman killed by train
A young woman was killed yesterday (Thursday) at Ealing Broadway station, after apparently stepping in front of a train.
She was hit shortly before 10.30am by a First Great Western express service from Swansea to Paddington, which was not due to stop at the station. Onlookers were stunned as staff scrambled to deal with the aftermath of the incident - evacuating the platform and shutting down trains and underground services. Rail and Central Line services were disrupted for around an hour.
Paramedics, fire crews and large numbers of police officers were sent to Ealing Broadway, but nothing could be done to save the victim. She is believed to have been killed instantly by the impact with the train. An air ambulance was placed on standby but was not despatched.
The incident is not being treated as suspicious.
One traveller said station staff had moved quickly to deal with the incident, as people waiting for trains at the busy interchange looked on in horror.
A First Great Western manager said he was ordered to evacuate the station immediately after the collision.
One man, who helps his friend run the Modern Food stall on one of the platforms, said: "It's a real tragedy that this young lady went under the train. I saw them carrying out body bags - it was terrible. I'm from northern Iraq and I've seen war and death, but it's still so horrible to see a waste of a precious life."
Another worker at the nearby Costa coffee stall said: "I was busy serving coffee, so I did not really see anything. Then we were told to leave, but there wasn't really a panic. All I heard is that it was a young woman."
Services were severely disrupted following the incident and passengers trying to use the Central Line were directed to use the 207 bus.
The station was eventually handed back to the control of Network Rail at 11.40am.
At the time of going to press, police had not named the dead woman.
