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That is so sad....I can't begin to understand the pressure that that poor woman must have been under.It's tragic that she didn't get the help that she obviously needed,and has taken another little innocent life with her.

I really feel for the poor train driver too.Hopefully he can get over the flashbacks and nightmares,and can work again.

Margot.

I understand too - I wanted to take my life and had a good go, but failed obviously - that's when I was diagnosed with clinical depression - on medication I am fine - there's a lot of depressed people in this world who need sympathy and understanding

Like Mersey I too suffered very deep depression. I had 2 severe nervous breakdowns within the space of 2 years and had 1 year of my life blocked from me on very very happy pills. I cannot remember my daughters first steps,words or anything else for that matter and also my son's early days at school. Unless you have been there you do not understand how desperate you feel. I too contemplated suicide very seriously and wanted to take my 2 babies with me too. Thank goodness I was strong enough to fight it in the end but it could so have ended the same way as this poor poor lady. My heart goes out to her and her family R I P.

You're not alone, Mersey, believe me. Lot of people fighting depression and are often close to edge. Many we have no idea are so ill.

So terribly sad when this happens. We all want to help - but too late after the event.

And the train driver does not deserve to be the one to kill them. That should not be part of his job. Nor the railway police. Nor the relative who has to identify bodies :-( :-( :-(

I was 8mths preganant and stood at a bus stop, across the road there was a tower block of flats with small swing park at the side, there was 3 children playing there I heard a women shout to them and then acouple of seconds later I though she had threw a bungle of clothes out of the window till I heard the thud, shocking experience.

This poor lady seemed a tortured soul , only from what I am reading she suffered severe depression and really struggled.

Severe depression and anxiety can do some terrible things emotionally and physically but I am so sad no-one could help her.

I have fully admitted before on here, I suffered terribley with depression to quite the extreme and its hard, I literally gave up living, it turns you into something you are not and its completley out of your control I did things I am not proud of and ashamed of too but I was so so lucky I got the help I needed thanks to my beautiful family....It was hard on my family what they had to see and also what they had to do to me in order to get me the help I needed and also someone who would listen.

After reading this story of this beautiful girl and her son and how she suffered it hurts because she could not fight as I did.

I wish her and her son peace and maybe hopefully someone can learn from this , know that there are people out there that are willing to listen, who want to care, who will forgive and who will give you/anyone the full support and hope for those who suffer this terrible illness.



Life is worth living, it may not seem it at the time but it is.......

So sorry for going on, just something I feel so strongly about...

Heartbreaking. I know families who have lost loved ones through suicide but it is their choice to do it, the little boy didn't get a choice. I hope they will both rest in peace now.

I feel for the poor driver too, who will carry the knowledge of their deaths for the rest of his life.

Maybe something happening in her life scared her to drive her to this act, many people who are losing homes, losing benefit over bedroom tax etc etc must be really worried at the moment.

Lizx

May she and her son r.i.p. I do hope in time her family forgive her for what she has done. My dear brother took his own life, so I know how angry and sad they must be feeling The question of why, we will never know. It has taken me many years to come to terms with what my brother did. My prayers and thoughts are with family and friends <3 <3

Full report Huffington Post.

Mother in her Thirties and boy aged Three.

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Thought I didn't dream that. Thanks Barry.

I am, Ann, just to the east of Toronto, where it's minus 2 and a nippy wind with a smattering of overnight snow.

There is small place in Ontario called Croydon; not more than a crossraods, it seems.
Google Napanee, Ontario - it's to the west of Kingston, just by Hwy 401 - which is THE busiest road in North America (don't we know it!)

Go a few blocks north of Napanee and there is Croydon all on its lonesome, just below Tamworth, (which is natch in Ontario, not Staffordshire, just to clarify.)

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

God rest her soul and that of her poor baby, she must have been truly in despair.

For some reason I thought Barry was in canada and he put Pulley which I didn't recognise. There could easily have been a Croydon in Canada. Not that it would have made any difference, just trying to establish where it was as not seen anything myself on the news. Horrendous wherever it was poor woman. And poor train driver.

so sad in every respect - a colleague of my son driving a high speed train saw a girl standing on the end of an upcoming platform - he guessed what she was about to do but could do nothing about it - she jumped, looking him straight in his face - and it happned to him once again - he managed to weather it all

a nephew of mine, also a train driver, killed a woman and child in a pushchair - he never returned to the railway

Such desperation may she and baby rest in peace.....

We know no details, but she must have been desperate to do this.

Many years ago my sister was on a train platform when someone jumped in front of a train. She did not witness it but did see the aftermath.

Can not begin to think how desperate you have to be to do something like this.

Yes, Ann, it was at Riddlesdown, near Purley.

Sorry, I noted Pulley, not Purley. Too early in the morning for me.

Ann - Barry said Croydon. My first thoughts were of horror and why take the child also and then thought of the train driver - bad enough an adult but when he learns of a child also.

He may never work again and the horror stay with him.

Hope it is not yet another case 'if I can't have him/her, you won't'.

My prayers to all those concerned in this dreadful tragedy

It was in Purley, Croydon area Ann

Very sad for all involved, poor woman must have been in the depths of despair