Kevin Craswell Incident
On 3 March 2006, in a widely reported incident, a drunken man crawled on to the tracks at the station, collapsed and fell asleep across the rails, "using the track as a pillow". Many trains were disrupted just before the Friday afternoon rush hour when 48-year-old Kevin Craswell, from nearby Ashtead, lay down and rested his head on a rail, a few inches from the electrified (750V) third rail. Had he touched this while in contact with the ground, he would have been electrocuted. Power had to be cut for approximately 15 minutes over a 3-mile stretch of track while Craswell was woken and taken to hospital. Network Rail stated that the cost of the disruption exceeded £7,000. Craswell, who was filmed by a police helicopter - the noise of which failed to wake him - was fined £560 and given 180 hours' community service.
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