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Published 24 Feb 2010 14:00
THREE paramedics and a ticket collector who courageously helped save a man's life at a train station have been given awards.
Two of the paramedics and the Scotrail worker lept on to the railway track at Kilpatrick station when a man lay down on the line, with a train pulling in to the platform.
While the three men tried to drag the man off the track a third paramedic ran down the platform to stop the approaching train.
The emergency workers had been treating the man at the station.
Paramedics James Henderson, Jim McFarlane and an unnamed third colleague, were recently commended by the chief constable of British Transport Police for their actions during the incident on April 15 last year.
The Scotrail ticket examiner Robert Edmond also received an award for helping the paramedics on the tracks.
James, who has a daughter Iona, two, with wife Claire, said: "It's just the job and you have to accept some of the things that come with it.
"The worst could have happened, or he could have got up himself, but I wasn't going to hang around to wait and see.
"If the same situation arose I would do the same thing."
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "We are extremely grateful to these public spirited individuals who went the extra mile, as well as putting themselves in danger, to help this distressed man.
"They are a real credit to the Scottish Ambulance Service and ScotRail."
This article appeared in Clydebank Post 24 Feb 10
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