Man seeks stranger who rescued him from rail track

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Simon Burke said he missed being struck by the train "by seconds"

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A man who collapsed onto the tracks at a railway station is hoping to find the selfless stranger who rescued him.

Simon Burke, a building surveyor from Guildford in Surrey, was travelling home on 10 July when he blacked out at Cheltenham Spa train station in Gloucestershire.

After regaining consciousness on the platform, he was told a 'Good Samaritan' had bravely pulled him from the tracks before boarding a train to Birmingham.

Mr Burke said he was "grateful" to his rescuer, whose heroic actions likely saved his life with just seconds to spare and wanted to find him to say thank you.

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