A husband and father of young children died when he was hit by a train as he was trying to return home, an inquest heard.

Daniel Lysiak had been drinking with friends on June 8 and boarded two trains before he got on to the tracks at Teynham Railway Station.

He started walking along them, during what was thought to be an attempt to get to his house in The Crescent, but was struck by a train near a level crossing off Lower Road in the early hours of June 9.

The inquest, at Archbishop’s Palace, in Maidstone, heard the 37-year-old, who was born in Poland, was unfamiliar with trains, using them once a year, if at all, and his reasoning was probably impaired by alcohol.

He died from multiple injuries and the coroner recorded his death was the result of misadventure.

A toxicology report found his blood alcohol content was almost three times the legal limit for driving.

The warehouse operative had young children, as well as plans for a holiday, and the coroner said there was nothing to suggest suicide was a motive for him climbing onto the tracks.

He had spent the afternoon of June 8 with his wife and children in Canterbury before a friend invited him for drinks in Faversham, where he spent the evening drinking whisky.

His wife, Maria, messaged him the time of the last train and his friend called him to remind him when to get off but he missed his stop at Teynham.

He travelled back to the village on another train, but instead of walking towards the exit went in the opposite direction.

The last conversation Maria had with her husband was around 1am when she told him to go to the road because her father was going to meet him there.

She asked why he was on the tracks and he said it was very dark and all he could see was bushes.

A statement from the train driver said he could see Mr Lysiak lying with his midriff over the rail and it looked as if he was asleep.

However, the coroner said: “I do not find that he was asleep. He may have fallen, I don’t know.”

She added a pre-existing injury to his knee may have impaired his mobility.