A more dramatic variant yesterday afternoon - the same afternoon as the fire engine collided with a cyclist outside Brixton House Theatre/Dogstar with as yet unknown outcome.
I was waiting for the 17:56 train to Victoria on Brixton (BR) Station platform1. As usual the station was relatively empty - 2 or 3 on the Victoria platform, maybe 10 on the Herne Hill platform.
Suddenly a bedraggled looking lady in her 40s appeared through the entrance on the Herne Hill platform.
She walked to the edge of the platform, climbed down onto the track, crossed the tracks (avoiding the live rails obviously), climbed up onto the Victoria bound platform - then ambled out the platform 1 entrance and down the crack-smoking stairs.
One feared she was suicidal - but seems more likely she was just trying to avoid someone!
I was shocked - probably others were too - but nobody did anything.
Its all very well consulting about closing railway ticket offices - but Brixton Southern Region station exists in a special circle of hell where ticket offices have ceased to be even relevant.
Oh and by the way it is an open station - so payment is completely optional.
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