Arrest after power line stunt caught on camera.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested and bailed in connection with an incident in which a person was seen swinging from overhead power cables by train passengers, British Transport Police said today.

A man from Tamworth was detained yesterday on suspicion of endangering safety and released pending further enquiries.

The death-defying stunt happened near a footbridge over the West Coast Main Line in the Bolehall area of Tamworth, about half a mile south of the town's railway station, on August 14.

A bare-chested man was seen by a passenger from Lancaster who was travelling from London Euston to Glasgow.

The traveller captured the incident on his camera phone and later passed the image to police. Pc Rob Newman, from British Transport Police, said the person pictured was lucky to be alive.

He said the overhead cables carried 25,000 volts and that although the overheads had been switched off to deal with another incident closer to the station, a residual current of at least 5,000 volts would still have been running through them.

Pc Newman said there was no way the person in the picture could have known the overhead lines had been switched off, as the train was standing at a red signal.

CAPTION(S):

PRANK... a man hanging from a power cable over a rail line.