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Mark O'Dwyer was waiting at Lisarow train station when he fainted and toppled two metres from the platform onto the tracks below, as a freight train bore down on the station.
Julian Shaw, travelling home from school with classmates, leapt into action. "I jumped down on to the tracks, lifted him off the ground and put him on my shoulder - he was heavy but there was enough adrenaline rushing through to help me," said Julian, who is in year 9 at Lisarow High School and plays guitar in punk rock band Checkered Fist.
With the train "just a couple of metres away", Julian moved the North Gosford resident to the edge of the track and rolled him under the platform. "[As the train roared past] the noise pierced your ears and there was a suction that pulled us in," Julian said. "I'd seen that on MythBusters, so I stayed right back and pulled Mark back towards me."
"What an amazing young man," said Mr O'Dwyer, recovering at home with a back injury, three fractured ribs, a fractured shoulder, damaged knee and general bruising.
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Julian Shaw, travelling home from school with classmates, leapt into action. "I jumped down on to the tracks, lifted him off the ground and put him on my shoulder - he was heavy but there was enough adrenaline rushing through to help me," said Julian, who is in year 9 at Lisarow High School and plays guitar in punk rock band Checkered Fist.
With the train "just a couple of metres away", Julian moved the North Gosford resident to the edge of the track and rolled him under the platform. "[As the train roared past] the noise pierced your ears and there was a suction that pulled us in," Julian said. "I'd seen that on MythBusters, so I stayed right back and pulled Mark back towards me."
"What an amazing young man," said Mr O'Dwyer, recovering at home with a back injury, three fractured ribs, a fractured shoulder, damaged knee and general bruising.
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