Woman stuck under train
A 63-year-old woman was trapped for more than two hours after falling under a moving train at a Shropshire station.
Officials at the Severn Valley Railway said it appeared the woman, fro Shrewsbury, was chasing a dog when she slipped and fell from the platform at Hampton Loade Station, near Bridgnorth.
Shropshire Air Ambulance was called to the scene at around 4.30pm yesterday and the woman was airlifted to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham with a fractured leg after being freed by firefighters.
An air ambulance spokeswoman said: "There were two patients and one was a female who was stuck under a train following a fall from the platform. She was not run over but became stuck between the track and platform. She had an open fracture of the left femur.
"The other patient was a male who is believed to have fallen as well."
Severn Valley Railway marketing manager John Leach said an investigation was under way into the incident. He added the train had only just started to move when the accident happened so it would have been going about 3mph.
Picture by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.
