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Dateline: 9th January, 2007
RSC Actor in Tube Drama Royal Shakespeare Company actor Chuk Iwuji helped rescue a woman who had fallen in a Tube line on Monday morning. He was beginning his journey to Stratford at Clapham Common underground station when he saw a woman lying on the track. He and another jumped onto the track and dragged her onto the platform just as a train pulled in. "I heard a couple of screams which made me move my head to look round," he said. "This girl was on the tracks. It looked like she was doing some kind of head-stand. "She was obviously trapped and could not move. She was upside down and the train was just pulling in. She would have been about thirty feet from the opening of the tunnel and the train probably stopped about twenty feet from her. There was a moment when I thought it was not going to stop in time." He said that another man had jumped down to help her and he followed. "I don't see it as heroic," he said. "It was just a reaction to a situation."Iwuji plays Henry VI in Richard III which opens on Friday. He plays the same part in the Henry VI trilogy. According to Transport for London spokesperson, the woman had never been in any danger as the driver had seen the problem his in-cab CCTV and was able to stop the train before reaching the platform. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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