Patrick Kennedy, 49, sat down between the rails near Prestatyn Station in North Wales 'for a giggle, a court heard, but his friend Keith Ford, 40, pulled him clear seconds before Mr Ford was struck and killed by a train bound for Holyhead.
Both Mr Kennedy, from Cheetham Hill, and Mr Ford, from Urmston, Trafford, had been drinking.
Mr Kennedy was cleared at Mold Crown Court yesterday of the manslaughter of Mr Ford and another charge of endangering the safety of people on a railway.
A jury of six men and six women had been hearing evidence in the trial which began on Monday.
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