A 21-year-old ‘gentleman’ has spoken of his ordeal on the Joondalup train line this morning after falling through a gap between the Stirling Station and a train carriage.

“The train was full and I was moving out to make way for the people who were stepping out and in that moment I guess my feet, I wasn’t watching, and it slipped in,” Ish told 7NEWS.

When asked if he was being a gentleman, the student said “Yep” with a smile.

Ish got stuck about 7.40am and it took about 40 minutes to free him, resulting in train services from Whitfords to Stirling being cancelled and replacement buses offered.

He was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Today’s incident mirrors a similar event at the same train station in 2014, where scores of passengers and staff pushed a carriage off a man who had his leg trapped. A video of the impressive people power used to free the man went viral.

Camera Icon The incident at Stirling Station in 2014. Credit: Renae Bryant / Facebook

It has sparked concern on social media, with people suggesting more needs to be done to close the dangerous gaps between the platforms and trains.

Transperth spokesman David Hynes said Perth’s train network had some of the smallest gaps between train and platform of any rail system in the world.

“While no rail network in the world has been able to completely eliminate the gap between train and platform, we do try our best to manage it by carefully designing new station platforms and installing rubber step buffers to railcars,” he said.

“It was just a freak coincidence that there was a similar incident at the same station in 2014,”

Trains resumed at 8.20am but there were delays. Mr Hynes thanked passengers for their patience this morning.

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