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Man fined for falling asleep on railway track


LONDON - A drunken businessman who fell asleep on a railway track causing rush hour disruption was sentenced to 180 hours' community service on Friday.Network Rail staff took half an hour to try and wake company director Kevin Craswell after he passed out on a line near Epsom last March after drinking a large amount of vodka.
Video pictures taken by a police helicopter showed him using the track as a pillow with a train passing near his head on another line.
Rail services were disrupted for about four hours during the afternoon rush hour.