Today Water Orton was no longer one of the anonymous train stations situated between Burton on Trent and Birmingham New Street. This morning it became the scene of a fatality. For whatever reason, someone pushing a bike stepped in front of a train and as a consequence of that conscious decision, ceased to exist. It's a sad fact of life that people commit suicide and that accidents happen (or is it more about being in the wrong place at the wrong time?) From that split second moment in time something so incomprehensibly awful happened, and hundreds of people were affected in some way. Those who were on the train, those who had to deal with the situation, those who were delayed on later trains, those who will hear about it on the news, or read about it in the newspapers. From the driver who was said to be hysterical to the business man on the train who was made late for his meeting. We all stopped and thought 'how dreadful'. But worst of all, tomorrow we will have forgotten...
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