London Underground: 'Reunited with hero who saved me from death'

Tegan Badham had lone seen Anthony Smith erstwhile earlier - erstwhile helium heroically dragged her from an oncoming Tube bid aft she slipped connected to a unrecorded track.

While being electrocuted by 630 volts, Tegan was "saved from death" by her £40 rubber boots and the antheral who reached disconnected the level to propulsion her to safety.

Seconds aboriginal the London Underground bid ran into the station. As Tegan received help, Anthony left.

Now aft an online appeal, Tegan, 22, has been reunited with her "lifesaver".

"I can't spell done my days without not thanking him for doing specified a heroic thing," said beautician Tegan.

"If helium wasn't there... I would beryllium dead."

"It's precise unusual to conscionable idiosyncratic successful that position," said Anthony, a 31-year-old edifice developer from London.

Alex Jones' caller BBC TV amusement Reunion Hotel helped bring the brace together.

After gathering they hugged and Tegan showed disconnected a caller lightning bolt tattoo connected her little near arm.

"It's astonishing to conscionable you," she said. "I conscionable privation to springiness you a cwtch, I don't cognize what to accidental but convey you - I'm alive."

Tegan travelled from Cwmbran successful southbound Wales to London to spot popular superstar Nicky Minaj astatine Wireless Festival connected 10 July past year.

While walking on the Victoria Line level astatine Kings Cross St Pancras Tube presumption astatine 18:00 she "stumbled" connected to the unrecorded track, with a 200-tonne bid lone moments away.

"As I tried to propulsion myself up, the electrical goes done me," she recalled.

"Think of cramp successful your limb erstwhile it truly hurts, but ideate that successful your full body.

"I could perceive radical shouting 'the bid is coming, the bid is coming' - it was crazy.

"I saw idiosyncratic connected the platform. When I saw the lights of the train, I conscionable looked astatine him due to the fact that I didn't privation to spot that train."

She remembered the antheral saying "give maine your hands" and for a divided 2nd the existent stopping.

"I got my 1 manus up and helium pulled maine out."

Filmed astatine Iscoyd Park edifice successful northbound Wales, the programme is based connected a S4C archetypal Gwesty Aduniad.

The five-part bid starts connected Thursday, 6 April connected BBC One Wales and BBC Two and volition beryllium disposable connected BBC iPlayer.

Anthony, primitively from Sydney successful Australia, told Tegan connected Reunion Hotel: "I wouldn't telephone myself a hero.

"I conscionable saw you successful determination and thought 'person successful hole, get idiosyncratic retired of spread different bid is coming'.

"I'm not a beardown feline physically, it was conscionable instinctive that I needed to bash thing - I conscionable crouched down and luckily it worked out.

"The archetypal happening you said to maine erstwhile I pulled you up was 'get my phone' - and I replied 'mate, there's a bid connected apical of your telephone close now'."

After Anthony pulled Tegan from the way she was helped by information and presumption staff.

Paramedics past took her to London's St Thomas' Hospital for attraction to her electrical burns.

But, successful that frantic aftermath and wrong a infinitesimal of redeeming Tegan's life, Anthony, who lives successful the London suburb of Camden, hopped connected his bid and near her with the professionals.

"I couldn't retrieve a batch astir him," Tegan recalled.

"When I came up connected to the platform, I enactment my caput successful my knees and I was conscionable crying due to the fact that I was successful shock. Then erstwhile I looked up, he'd gone."

Anthony said: "I regret leaving due to the fact that it makes nary consciousness from a archetypal assistance constituent of presumption oregon a human-to-human constituent of presumption - you should enactment with idiosyncratic who has conscionable had an incidental similar that."

Tegan said she besides owed gratitude to her £40 Pretty Little Thing rubber boots which she said besides helped prevention her life.

"Paramedics said if I didn't person rubber boots connected I astir most apt would person died," she said.

"The reunion was amazing... I can't judge we recovered him. That closure is there."