‘Then the ambulance men arrived, and they said they had to switch the electricity on again to move the train off me. ‘A lovely passenger who told me her name was Maggie - talked to me and held my hand. ‘I lay there, I later discovered, for 45 minutes,’ she recalls. He said they were going to switch off the power to stop me shaking due to the electricity.’ĭiana’s life was saved by her rubber-soled pumps, which don’t conduct electricity. I was wedged there, crushed, terrified, and the train moved on.ĭiana pictured here with her friend Katie and Katie's son Billy, while undergoing rehabilitation which involved learning to walk again with prosthetic limbs, at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton
‘Then my left leg dropped below the running board and I fell into the gap between the platform and the train. My right foot slipped, I clung to the doorframe and then the train jolted again. ‘I had my right foot on the running board (the step under the door) and was raising the other when the train jerked ferociously and pulled away. I knew I’d have to wait half an hour if I missed it, so I ran down the stairs and across the platform to the train. ‘But as I walked over the bridge at Wandsworth Common station, the 6.29pm train to Victoria was pulling in. ‘That evening I was going to meet a friend for supper and I wasn’t in a rush.
‘My new business was going well and I was enjoying myself,’ she says. Today, Diana recalls the day in August 1990 when her life changed in the blink of an eye.
‘When it’s a beautiful day and everyone is running into the sea, I want to run with them' 'Every day I’m more grateful for life, but there are still times when I feel a pang of loss,’ says Diana (pictured).
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