Normally no, don’t try it! With many trains you have almost no chance at all.

Some trains have more clearance, and you might survive, here’s an example, where someone did it, with a very slow moving train, but notice the bits hanging down under the train:

LiveLeak.com - Having fun under the train

You could have something that’s hanging down like that just where you are and of course, you can’t get out of the way.

And if there are no stones between the sleepers, and you are very short, a child, you could lie between the sleepers. But these children were playing Russian Roulette as well, as there could be something dangling beneath the train. Don’t do it!

If the only way out of a situation is to lie between the tracks, perhaps caught in a tunnel with two trains passing in opposite directions or single track rail, it’s maybe worth a try, but your chances aren’t that good. Best not to get into that situation.

“Are trains designed such that if a person were about to get run over, he could lie flat between the tracks and avoid death as the train passed over him?”

“In much the same way that every chandelier is deliberately engineered to support the weight of an adult male swinging from it by one hand while firing an automatic weapon with the other. Which is to say: only in the movies.”

If You Laid Down Between the Tracks, Would a Train Pass Right Over You?

Also for anyone considering doing this - give some thought to the train driver - think what it must be like to see someone lying on the track, and knowing there is no way you can stop your train in time to avoid hitting them.

Best kept to movie sets I think.