But after she fell ill, she returned to the railway platform.

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As such, the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) added platform safety doors to all of its 84 stations, finishing the multi-year construction project in 2011.

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Currently Cambridge railway station has only one platform for longer trains.

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On the morning of 17 October 1961, eighteen-year-old Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) was waiting on the platform of Dartford railway station for the train to take him the 16 miles into central London, where he was a mediocre student at the highly respected London School of Economics.

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In December 2012, German police discovered a crude improvised explosive device placed in a bag on a platform at the main railway station in Bonn.

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But when she was forced to leave, she moved to the nearest railway station where she started living on the platform.

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Tens of thousands of people were in the station waiting to board a train when railway officials announced a last-minute change in the platform, triggering the chaos.

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In Hong Kong, a 2008 study by the University of Hong Kong found that installing platform safety doors resulted in a 60% reduction in railway suicides.

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