Taken from Times of India.
MUMBAI: A Western Railway guard's presence of mind saved the lives of two visually challenged persons—a man and a woman—who had fallen off a platform on to the tracks at Churchgate station on Monday.
The incident took place at 9.40am when the two lost their way and started walking towards the Marine Lines-end of platform number 3, said a Western Railway official.
The guard, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, who was manning a
Train that had just arrived on platform number 2, spotted the duo walking in the wrong direction. "I saw that the two were headed in the wrong direction and sensed that they could fall off the platform," Yadav said. However, even before he could warn them, the duo had fallen on the tracks near the subway.
Yadav then realized that a train coming from Marine Lines was about to enter the station on the same tracks where the duo had fallen. Yadav rushed to the tracks with a red flag, waving at the oncoming train and signalling it to halt. The motorman of the train, which had already left Marine Lines, spotted the flag and applied brakes to bring it to a halt. The train stopped just 10 ft away from the visually challenged duo.
Commuters who had gathered on the platform pulled the man and the woman out. The visually challenged man had become unconscious and had to be given water. Yadav then took them to the station master's office, where first aid was administered to them for some bruises they had sustained. The duo was then allowed to leave. Yadav escorted the woman, a resident of Dombivli, to her office in Fort.
Western Railway's chief public relations officer Sharat Chandrayan said, "The guard has done a commendable job and he will be rewarded by the WR."
Recently, Central Railway motorman Shyam Sharma was felicitated for stopping the train he was piloting to pick up an injured girl lying on the tracks in Thane. The girl, Renuka Prajapati, had been travelling between Thane and Mulund on March 11, when she fell off a train. Sharma informed the station master of the nearest station and ensured that Prajapati was taken to a hospital, thus saving her life. Last year, Sharma had helped another commuter at Parel.
Source: Times of India.
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