‘It was a very lucky escape’: blind man who fell on to tracks calls for rail travel improvements

Abdul Eneser was able to haul himself back on to the platform with only a minute to spare before a train arrived. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

When Abdul Eneser slipped off the side of the platform at Manchester Piccadilly station, he lay terrified with no option but to listen as the rumbles of a freight train drew closer.

Eneser, who is blind, had fallen owing to a lack of tactile paving, meaning he had been unable to feel how close he was to the edge of the platform.