My ex works for first
and they get their fair share of jumpers along the lines. He told me you generally get used to it, but you never get over seeing kids. Granted they're not usually suicides, they're tagging along the lines and don't know there's a train coming, but they're the ones that stay with you.

My brother works on the underground as an engineer and was there when a guy decided he didn't like his girlfriend anymore so held her down as a train went over her. My brother was the only one would go down onto the tracks to sit with her while they waited for the ambulance. Her lower legs had been clean cut off, so he tied tourniquets around her thighs and they talked about dreams of the future and horseriding - apparently she was a keen horse rider. They stayed in touch afterwards, she had a bit more of her legs amputated and has false ones now to get around on.

I asked him why he went down onto the tracks when it should have been the job of the platform staff and he said that if he didn't then no one else would have.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 31 May 2008, 12:59, Reply)