Tragedy at Carlton station: Heartbreaking CCTV shows a family’s final moments before a freak train station accident killed a little girl in a pram and her heroic father

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Heartbreaking surveillance camera footage has emerged showing a young family’s last moments together before a stroller carrying two toddlers rolled onto the tracks, killing a little girl and her father who tried to save her.

Commuters watched in horror as the double stroller with two-year-old twins in it fell from the platform onto the tracks of the Carlton traintation in Sydney’s Sunday, around 12.25pm.

The twins’ 40-year-old father jumped from the platform in a heroic attempt to save them.

Subsequently, the father and one of the girls were hit and killed by a train passing through the station.

Miraculously, the second girl was unharmed despite being trapped under the train.

She was taken to St. George Hospital along with her 39-year-old mother, who was on the platform at the time of the accident.

Haunting footage shows residents of St. George on a family outing just minutes before the tragedy.

Seven minutes before the accident, the family was seen walking past the shops toward a pedestrian crossing.

The father took care of the stroller while his partner carried a trolley.

They were seen peeking into a grocery store before crossing the street toward the train station.

The family then used an elevator to get to the platform.

The local Indian community has rallied behind the family, who came to Australia from India in October last year after the father found a new job in Sydney, Nine News reported.

An investigation was launched into the circumstances of the tragic deaths; police checked the speed at which the train was traveling.

The train was travelling from Cronulla to the city at the time and was not scheduled to stop at Carlton station.

The station remained closed on Sunday night.

However, train services between Wolli Creek and Hurstville on the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line have resumed but do not stop at Carlton.

Commuters travelling to and from Carlton can take replacement buses from Kogarah or Allawah instead.

The tragedy has left commuters shocked and shaken.

“I knew immediately it was bad,” recalled Grant Azzopardi.

“I heard the train go by and I heard the woman running for her life: ‘Please stop, stop.'”

“The train couldn’t stop.”

Lauren Langelaar added: “She (the mother) was standing on the platform screaming her husband’s name.”

“We could only hear one child crying, not two.”

New South Wales Police Superintendent Paul Dunstan said the parents apparently took their hands off the stroller for “a very brief period” as it rolled toward the tracks.

Mr Dunstan said police were investigating what caused the stroller to overturn and suggested it could have been something as simple as a “gust of wind”.

He said the father “went into parent mode to save his two young daughters” after realizing the train had strayed onto the tracks.

“It was a heroic act of courage as a father … and it cost him his life,” he said.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who lives just 100 metres from the station, said the father died while carrying out an “extraordinary, instinctive act of bravery”.

“He gave his own life to try to save his children,” he said.

Mr Minns described the incident as a “terrible, terrible tragedy” for the surviving family members and first responders.

The police arrived just a few minutes after the emergency call and could hear “crying” under the car.

Mr Dunstan said it was “mostly lucky” that the young girl escaped the tragedy relatively unscathed.

“She was somehow lying between the tracks because of the way she had fallen and was largely uninjured,” he said.

Mr Dunstan said the mother was “obviously very traumatised”.

“(She is) obviously in a state of shock and struggling with what happened today,” he said.

Two hours after the incident, rescue workers arrived at the station and began the arduous task of removing the bodies from under the train.

Sydney Trains managing director Matt Longland said all relevant information, including surveillance footage, had been provided to police to assist their investigation.

Mr Longland said the train would not stop at the station en route to Bondi Junction.

“(The train) approached the station with caution. Our drivers are instructed to drive in this way so that they can ensure that there are no incidents on the platform,” he said.

“Incidents like this are incredibly rare, but their consequences are absolutely tragic.”

Mr Longland said Sydney Trains was working to restore regular services by the start of the working week on Monday morning.

He added that the train driver and other staff would be supported.

A commuter reportedly tried unsuccessfully to flag down the driver to alert him to the danger.

A passenger in the train’s fifth carriage told Seven News that although he had not seen the aftermath, he found it “disturbing” that children were involved in the incident.

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