THE FAMILY OF a man who died after putting his head out a train window in London have said he was a “railway fanatic”.

Simon Brown (24) from Sussex suffered serious head injuries during the incident on Sunday afternoon.

An investigation is underway surrounding the circumstances of the incident, which happened on a Gatwick Airport-bound train.

Brown’s family have paid tribute to him, describing him as a “a railway fanatic”.

His father Mike told the Evening Standard:

As soon as he could toddle, Simon was into trains. At nine he volunteered with the Bluebell Railway in West Sussex and became a station master.

“He worked on a Great Northern restoration project and left school at 18 to start an apprenticeship with Southern Trains.

“He’d only got the job with Hitachi [Rail Europe] a couple of months ago and had moved to Stoke Gifford (near Bristol) to be with his girlfriend.”

Fundraiser 

Brown’s friends have launched a fundraising page to raise money for a memorial.

They had hoped to raise £1,000, but, at the time of publication, had raised over £6,600.

His friends described him as “a real light in the railway world”.

“He was always smiling … and would bend over backwards to help anyone. There’s now a massive hole in our close-knit community.”

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