Nurse's 'race against time' after remote rail collapse

A SCOTS nurse came close to death after falling seriously ill at the UK's most remote train station with help hours away.

- By Gemma Ryder

Mum-of-three Amy Fulford was with a friend, who was visiting Scotland, on a trip to Corrour Station in the Highlands, when she was struck by severe abdominal pain in May last year. Little did the 52-year-old know but her bowel was on the verge of rupture and she was stranded in a life-threatening emergency.

She said: "I felt like I might pass out, so I went outside for air. I didn't get very far before I collapsed. I'd had no symptoms and had been feeling fine as we headed out for the day."