Welcome to Little Devils Direct We are an exciting, award winning company based in Scotland. We recently won a Loved By Parentsaward and have achieved an excellent reputation for quality, integrity, honesty and excellentcustomer satisfaction - even being recognised by Prince Charles! As parents ourselves, we understandthat having a baby can be a daunting process. We aim to make it a great experience for you withproducts that you will love for years to come. Free Deliver & Returns We offer free delivery on all mainland UK orders. Live outside this area? No worries, just check our delivery & returns page here.We offer a 14 day money back guarantee on all products so you can purchase safe in the knowledge that there will be no problems.This is the terrifying moment a baby in a pushchair fell onto live train tracks while its mother's back was turned partly because the platform they were standing on was sloped, a report has found.The baby suffered minor injuries after its buggy rolled along
the platform and veered off the edge, narrowly missing the electrified conductor rail.The mother, who was buying tickets from a machine, was alerted to the pushchair's movement by her toddler and turned around to see her baby rolling towards the track. CCTV footage shows the mother using the ticket machine at the platform at at Whyteleafe station near Caterham, Surrey, with her baby's buggy behind her - slightly closer to the platform edge The woman was alerted to the buggy's movements by her toddler who was standing next to her on the platform. She turned just as it rolled slowly towards the edge She ran desperately to try and catch her baby who was strapped into the pushchair as it veered over the edge of the platform on to the track She tried to reach it before it fell onto the track but was unsuccessful. She then attempted to remove the baby from the pushchair once it had fallen.She eventually got the baby and pushchair back on the platform with the help of bystanders - just two minutes before the train was due to arrive.
It incident in September last year occurred because the platform at Whyteleafe station near Caterham, Surrey, was sloped, a report found. just days after British Transport Police released frightening VVCT footage of a buggy with a baby inside being blown on to an Underground line in an incident at Goodge Street station in London last month. CCTV footage of the incident shows a mother and her two children - a baby strapped into a pushchair and a toddler walking beside her - walking onto the platform ready to catch a London-bound train. The mother stopped the pushchair while she operated the ticket machine on the platform, but did not apply the pushchair’s parking brake, the report carried out by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch concluded.It said: 'While her attention was focused on the purchase of her ticket, she was unaware that the pushchair had started to roll slowly along the platform and had then veered to the right and towards the platform edge.
The woman became aware of the audible alarm for the nearby level crossing, which had started its closure sequence for the arrival of the train as she went to rescue her child She lowered herself on to the live track at and first tried to untie her baby from the pushchair, but was hampered by attached medical equipment mother was alerted by the toddler to the pushchair’s movement, and turned to see it rolling towards the track. 'She tried to reach it before it fell onto the track, but was unable to do so. missed the electrified conductor rail.'The report explained that she initially attempted to remove the baby from the pushchair. delayed by her having to untangle medical equipment for the baby on theShe became aware of the audible alarm for the nearby level crossing, which had started its closure sequence for the arrival of theEventually, with the help of other passengers the mother got baby and pushchair back on to the platform two minutes before the train
was due to arrive. The baby suffered minor cuts and bruising. RAIB published their findings as part of a report that also looked into another dramatic incident which involved a woman in a wheelchair falling on to train tracks Southend Central station in Essex just weeks earlier, in August 2013. People nearby at the station gathered to help the woman as she lowered herself on to the tracks. The report into the incident concluded that it took place partly because the platform was sloped With the help of bystanders she was eventually able to retrieve the pushchair from the tracks. The baby suffered minor injuries from the incidentShe suffered a fractured hip and went into shock after her chair, which also did not have its brakes applied, rolled towards the track where she was waiting with a male carer. he nor the member of station staff, who had escorted the pair on to the platform, noticed the wheelchair roll more than 8ft to the platform
edge before falling in. There was some difficulty contacting the approaching train but the driver had a good view of the track and woman had been lifted to safety by the time the London-bound train arrived, the report said. both instances the report found that the platforms in both incidents sloped towards the track and that there was nothing to alert passengers at either station to the presence of the slope. The report into two dramatic incidents concluded that part of the problem was that the platforms at Whyteleafe Station, left, and Southend Central station, right, were not obviously sloped The RAIB said that at the time of the platforms’ construction there was no specific requirement for platforms to slope away from the railway. report said the railway industry had generally recorded previous incidents of a similar nature as due solely to errors by the individualsIt said: 'As a consequence, the industry had not recognised the