IanTrain Surfing
June 11th 2007 14:43
Train surfing is a dangerous (and usually illegal) thrill-seeking activity which involves riders clinging or "surfing" on the outside of a moving train while trying to avoid falling off during its acceleration. Practitioners are usually young people (under 25). Potential accidents include collisions with poles and viaducts/tunnels, electrocution from an electrified overhead wire or third rail, injury when falling/jumping off, getting run over by the train itself, and getting crushed between the train and a station platform.
Despite these risks, some crazy people still give it a go as the pictures below demonstrate.
*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.
**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Train surfing.
Despite these risks, some crazy people still give it a go as the pictures below demonstrate.
*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.
**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Train surfing.
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They are streaming onto the station concourse on a day off with only fun in mind.
But a stranger is stretched out on the last carriage.
His right arm is petrified and his fingers are rigid.
Lying face down before firefighters turn him over to gingerly place him in an orange body capsule, the young man has obviously received the full force of about 1500 volts of electricity.
He wears a top, jeans and runners. His face is blackened.
Mums, dads, children, elderly Asian tourists, teenagers and shoppers are drawn to the scene.
The man is a 20-year-old from Werribee.
Police say he was train surfing and was electrocuted.
Security footage filmed him climbing on to the roof of a train at Newport station at 1.10am yesterday.
That train then travelled to Werribee, where it remained for the night, before returning to the city as the 7.26am from Werribee.
It was as it shunted into platform four about 8.30am that someone saw the man's body.
"He was found under the pantograph, which touches the electrified wires overhead," Connex spokesman John Rees says.
"It is not just the pantograph, but the whole metal structure around that section that becomes electrified during operation."
Fire crews wait for power to be isolated before they retrieve the body before 9.30am.
"It's pretty tragic when a young person like that is killed," MFB operations commander Wayne Garrard says.
An American tourist watches sadly as the body is covered with a black blanket and wheeled out. He has never heard of train surfing.
"We mostly have subways and it's impossible to get on the top of a train," he says.
Police will prepare a report for the State Coroner.
Connex has warned train surfing is extremely dangerous and likely to end in death.