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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Parnaby

Partner of blind charity worker hit by train calls for stations to be made safer

The partner of a blind charity volunteer who died falling into the path of a train has described his grief at losing his “rock” and called for stations to be made safer.

Cleveland Gervais, 53, an HIV charity counsellor, died after falling from the platform at Eden Park station in Beckenham, south-east London – which had no tactile paving to indicate the edge – on February 26, 2020.

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