VIDEO: Soldier saves pensioner on train tracks

A soldier has told how he ran across live rails into the path of an oncoming train to rescue a woman who fell on the tracks.

VIDEO: Soldier saves pensioner on train tracks

A soldier has told how he ran across live rails into the path of an oncoming train to rescue a woman who fell on the tracks.

Billy McPhail, 26, was standing on the opposite platform at Strood station in Kent when he heard “a loud thud” and a sound “like someone kicking stones on a gravel drive”.

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