THE heroics of Perth commuters in 2014 have inspired US train passengers to follow their lead and help save a woman trapped between a train and the platform.

On Friday night a woman slipped and got her leg caught while disembarking the train at Massachusetts Avenue station, in Boston.

Remarkably, one man was on hand to drum up enough of a crowd to begin pushing the train - having seen a similar effort from heroic Perth commuters online.

Speaking to US website wcvb.com, Pete Shamon said he had stumbled across footage from Perth’s Stirling Station just days before this latest rescue bid, during a random internet trawl.

The massive rescue effort in Perth, in August 2014, sparked headlines around the world, sending footage of the incredible feat viral.

But as he joined the millions of people worldwide to watch the footage, he had no idea it could have real life implications that very same week.

"This is a little trick I picked up this week, and it came in handy pretty quickly," Mr Shamon told wcvb.

“More and more crowds gathered and after awhile, it was probably a couple hundred people gathered out there on that platform.”

Thanks to the united effort it wasn’t long before the woman was freed.

“It happened like that, it was five seconds and she was out.”