Train conductor stamps dead man's ticket

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LONDON (Reuters) - A train conductor carefully stamped the ticket of a slumbering passenger without realising the man was dead.


The thoughtful train worker thought the passenger was dozing when he came across him in the carriage clutching his ticket.


He carefully prised the ticket from the man's hands, punched it and returned it to him.


Shortly afterwards the train pulled into the station at York and rail staff alerted paramedics when they realised the man was not breathing.


"The conductor needn't have been so careful, as it turned out that the passenger had expired, long before his ticket ever did," said a report in the Transport Police's staff magazine.