which saw him talk down a machete- wielding man at Nuneaton railway station. The London Midland employee received the accolade at the 2013 National Rail Staff Awards. Whittington spent 20 minutes talking
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with the man and calming him down until the police arrived and took control of the scene. British Transport Police supported Adrian’s nomination saying, ‘Adrian is a quiet, pleasant and unassuming chap who put the welfare of his passengers before his own and assisted us in ensuring a delicate and dangerous situation did not escalate.’ The incident, which took place earlier this year, demonstrates the many challenges that employees working on the front line of passenger services face. Patrick Verwer, London Midland’s managing director said: ‘What Adrian did was quite incredible and I am enormously proud to have such a dedicated individual as part of our team.’
The LifeSaver award is sponsored by
Samaritans, who launched a partnership with Network Rail four years ago in a bid to reduce the number of suicides on railways.
drian Whittington has won a national award for an outstanding act of bravery
end of the West Coast Main Line - the busiest section of the route. After walking the 80 mile route between London and Rugby, a specialist NR engineering team identified a series of improvements and work including removing defects, adjusting equipment, improving the operational performance of neutral sections and high level inspection at major junctions. The team is also removing obsolete components such as old auxiliary wires which present a reliability risk. The package of improvements is being delivered
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by a team of engineers from Network Rail, SPL Powerlines UK (Siemens) and ABC (Alstom, Babcock, Costain) who are working five night shifts every week until the project completes in March 2014. Much of the overhead line infrastructure on the
southern end of the West Coast Mail Line dates from when the line was electrified in the 1960’s.
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etwork Rail is delivering a £7.6 million project to reduce delays caused by overhead line failures on the southern
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