Two young graffiti artists say they will never go onto railway tracks again after seeing the body of their friend after it was cut in two by a train in Sydney’s inner west.

Tre Toman, an 18-year-old apprentice plumber, was killed in a railway underpass between Lewisham and Petersham while he was tagging on the night of January 11 last year.
The Glebe Coroners Court on Wednesday was told he may not have heard the train coming and been caught off guard near the wall he was tagging or in the underpass.
Mr Tomac was with friends Nicholas Calleija and Michael Birchnell, both 17 at the time, when they decided to tag a freshly painted wall near Lewisham station.
Mr Calleija, now 18, told the inquest Mr Toman was highly regarded for his “Ontre” tag which was known around Sydney “from Blacktown to Maroubra”.
Mr Toman’s friends had just passed through the underpass tunnel when a train suddenly came through, surprising both of them.

“I couldn’t hear it until I saw it … It was right there, ” said Mr Calleija.
He said they both began calling out to Mr Toman and ran back into the underpass to find him.
“I saw Tre in half … I told Mike not to look,” Mr Calleija said.
Mr Birchnell, also now 18, told the court the train came “out of nowhere” and when it had gone their shouts for Mr Toman were met with silence.
“I looked on the tracks, he was just in half.”
When asked by Coroner Mary Jerram what his attitude to graffiti was now, Mr Calleija said he was “over all the illegal stuff”.

“I never, ever would get on a railway track again.”
Mr Calleija said a lot of taggers who knew Mr Toman now chose less dangerous sites.
Mr Birchnell also said he would never venture onto train tracks again.