Baby's pram filmed rolling onto train tracks

Shocking video has emerged of a pram containing a five-month-old baby rolling off a Melbourne train platform and onto the tracks.

Nine News obtained the footage, after a four-month Freedom of Information battle, while investigating the problem of sloping platforms.

The incident at Fairfield station late last year was only one of three involving prams rolling off platforms in 2011 alone.

Thankfully in all three instances the babies escaped unscathed.

Public Transport Users Association president Daniel Bowen said parents needed to take care, but train infrastructure "should be as safe as possible".

Metro has admitted the vast majority of its stations slope the wrong way but says new stations have been constructed with platforms facing away from the tracks.

"The new stations always slope away from the tracks, it's a legacy of the old stations where the water flowed onto the tracks," Metro spokesman Daniel Hoare told Nine News.

"It happened so quickly in this instance, it just shows you can't look away from a pram."

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