SIX months of nursing training paid off for Kay Seymour yesterday when she put her own life on the line to save a man who fell on to train tracks at Wooloowin station on Brisbane's northside.
The 56-year-old man had become disoriented as a result of seizures and stepped off the platform just before 8am, with the train due at 8.04am.
Ms Seymour, 42, said she heard someone yell out "He's on the tracks" and her nursing training just kicked in.
"I tried to get a verbal response from him at first, but when that didn't work I said to another lady 'I'm going to have to get on the tracks'," Ms Seymour said.
FIRST RESPONDER: Trainee nurse Kay Seymour rushed to the rescue after a -year-old man fell off the platform at Wooloowin. Picture: Glenn Barnes
BRAVE RESCUE: Nurse jumps onto tracks to save man
As Ms Seymour spoke calmly to the man to get him to stand up, Queensland Rail customer service officer Jill Lyten took action to halt any approaching trains.
EMERGENCY: The man steps off the platform and falls onto the train tracks at Wooloowin station.
"I knew how dangerous it was on the tracks. I knew I just had to get the number and call control and stop the trains," said Ms Lyten, who was on her way into work in the city.
"I think everyone worked really, really well together."
After a tense couple of minutes, Ms Seymour was able to help the man off the tracks and on to the platform, where he was met by ambulance officers and taken to hospital for treatment.
EMERGENCY: The man is on hands and knees on the train tracks after falling.
She said it was fortunate her training at Southbank Institute of Technology had recently covered scenarios where people lose orientation and cognitive responses are tested.
"I kept asking him questions while getting him to lift both hands, and taking his pulse. His heart rate was up," Ms Seymour said.
"It's a matter of just constantly checking that cognitive response. I was surprised how the training just kicked in."
EMERGENCY: The student nurse and bystanders help the man off the train tracks.
Queensland Rail acting chief executive Jim Benstead said it could have been a very different outcome if the approaching train had come.
"It could've gone very differently today. It could've been disastrous," Mr Benstead said.
Although he praised Ms Seymour's bravery and selflessness, he said the "right thing to do" in such a situation would be to alert station staff or use the emergency button.
In the past year, Queensland Rail has recorded 400 "near-misses" with pedestrians at level crossings and on tracks.
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