Frightening footage has emerged of a man’s narrow escape after he fell from a station platform into the path of an oncoming train.
The incident occurred on February 8 in Melbourne’s northwest, where station CCTV footage shows the man’s gut-wrenching tumble on to the tracks.
A quick-thinking bystander at St Albans station quickly moved to grab the man but missed.
Luckily, the man was able to scramble to his feet and dash across the path of the oncoming train to the other side of the tracks.
From there he was able to lift himself on to the platform.