HOSPITAL worker Marjorie Ellis of Burnley lay in the path of a tube train after travelling to London to commit suicide, an inquest in London heard.

Mrs Ellis, 53, a hospital ward clerk, died on Friday, October 13th, after walking into the pitch black tunnel at Marble Arch underground station where she was hit by a train travelling at about 50 kilometres an hour.

The inquest jury was told that in the ten years after the death of her husband, Harry, Mrs Ellis developed psychotic depression and had gone missing several times.

In a statement her son Paul, of Acre Street, Briercliffe, said he reported his mother missing after she cancelled a trip to go to the pictures with his aunt last October 13.

He reported her missing when he discovered she was not at her home in Harrison Street, Harle Syke.

The same day police called to say they thought his mum had been run over by a train in London.

He later identified her sapphire engagement ring to police.

Mrs Ellis's GP, Dr Toufiq Alsi said she once told him she was unable to see the light at the end of the tunnel but there was no evidence of her having suicidal tendencies.

The last person to see her alive Ms Duha-al-Wakeel said she was sitting at the very far end of the platform when a woman walked past her with her hands shaking.

She said: "I didn't think she was very friendly, she was glaring at me."

The next time she looked up the woman had gone.

Tube driver John Marsh said: "I was probably just getting ready to brake and I noticed the headlights lit up a large, light coloured object lying across the rails. It could not have been more than four or five feet away, I just glimpsed it for a fraction of a second."

No suicide note was found on Mrs Ellis who was employed by Burnley NHS Hospital trust although she was off work sick at the time.

A jury returned a verdict that Mrs Ellis committed suicide.