Tragedy at Carlton train station: Heartbreaking CCTV footage shows a family’s final moments before a freak accident at a train station claimed the lives of a little girl in a pram and her heroic father – as witnesses reveal chilling details and a disturbing theory emerges

Heartbreaking surveillance footage has emerged of a young family’s last moments together before a stroller carrying two toddlers rolls onto train tracks, killing a girl and her father, who tried to save her.

Commuters watched in shock as the double pram carrying two-year-old twins fell from the platform onto the tracks at Carlton train station.tation in Sydneys around 12.25pm ​​on Sunday.

The twins’ 40-year-old father jumped from the platform in a heroic attempt to save them.

The station was then hit by a train, killing the father and one of the girls.

The second girl miraculously escaped unharmed, despite being trapped under the train.

She was taken to St. George’s Hospital along with her 39-year-old mother, who was on the platform when the accident happened.

Poignant footage shows residents of St. George on a family outing just minutes before the tragedy.

Shocking CCTV footage (pictured) captured St George’s residents walking past a supermarket minutes before arriving at the station

Seven minutes before the accident, the family was seen walking past the shops towards a zebra crossing.

The father was responsible for the stroller, while his partner held a trolley bag.

She was seen briefly looking into a supermarket before crossing the street towards the train station.

The family then used an elevator to reach the platform.

The local Indian community has rallied behind the family, who came to Australia from India in October last year after the father found a new job in Sydney, it said. Nine news.

An investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the tragic deaths, with police monitoring the speed of the train.

The train was en route from Cronulla to the city at the time and would not stop at Carlton station.

The station remained closed on Sunday evening.

Trains are now running again between Wolli Creek and Hurstville on the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line, but they do not stop at Carlton.

Commuters travelling to and from Carlton can instead take the replacement buses from Kogarah or Allawah.

Commuters were shocked and horrified by the tragedy.

“I knew right away it was bad,” Grant Azzopardi recalls.

‘I heard the train go by and I heard the woman running for her life, ‘please stop, stop,”

‘The train couldn’t stop.’

Lauren Langelaar added: ‘She (the mother) was standing on the platform and screaming her husband’s name.’

“We only heard one child crying, not two.”

New South Wales Police Commissioner Paul Dunstan said the parents appeared to have taken their hands off the pram for a “very short period” as it rolled towards the tracks.

Mr Dunstan said police were investigating what caused the pram to roll, and it may have been something as simple as a ‘gust of wind’.

He said the father “went into parent mode to save his two young daughters” when he realised the train had hit the tracks.

“It was a heroic and courageous act as a father… and it cost him his life,” he said.

The local Indian community has rallied behind the family (pictured) who moved to Australia from India in October last year after the father found a job in Sydney

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who lives within 100 metres of the station, said the father died in an “extraordinary, instinctive act of bravery”.

“He gave his own life to save his children,” he said.

Mr Minns described the incident as a “terrible, terrible tragedy” for the surviving family members and emergency services.

A few minutes after the police received the report of an accident, the police arrived and could hear ‘crying’ from underneath the wagon.

Mr Dunstan said it was “more luck than anything” that the young girl escaped the tragedy relatively unscathed.

“She was sort of lying between the tracks (because of) the way she fell and was largely unaffected,” he said.

Mr Dunstan said the mother was ‘clearly very traumatised’.

‘[She is] “I’m obviously in shock and struggling with what happened today,” he said.

Two hours after the incident, emergency services were found at the station, where they began the arduous task of removing the bodies from under the train.

NSW Police said the incident was not being treated as suspicious and officers were investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the father and his daughter (pictured officers at the police station)

Sydney Trains CEO Matt Longland said all relevant information, including CCTV footage, has been handed over to police to assist their investigation.

Mr Longland said the train did not stop at the station en route to Bondi Junction.

“(The train) approached the station with caution. That’s how our drivers have to drive so they can make sure there are no incidents on the platform,” he said.

“These types of incidents are incredibly rare, but the outcome is clearly tragic.”

Mr Longland said Sydney Trains is working to restore regular services at the start of the working week on Monday morning.

He added that the driver and other personnel were being supported.

According to reports, a commuter tried to warn the driver of the danger, but was unsuccessful.

A passenger in the fifth car of the train told Seven News he did not see the aftermath of the crash but was “concerned” that children were involved.

All passengers were evacuated before police established a crime scene (pictured) and suspended further services between Wolli Creek and Hurstville stations