Andrew Minto, 23, lost his trainer as he pretended to take a penalty with an imaginary football as he walked along the platform.
Mr Minto had been returning home from a Newcastle United football match when he clambered onto the carriage to recover his trainer.
But tragically he made contact with an overhead power line at Durham train station, sending 25,000 volts through his body and the force of the shock hurled him onto the tracks below.
Mr Minto, who worked on the marketing team at Durham County Council, was taken to hospital suffering from severe burns.
He remained in a stable condition in the hospital's critical care ward, but died a week later from multiple organ failure.
Eyewitnesses said the Newcastle fan had kicked an imaginary football as he walked along the platform - and dismissed suggestions that someone had thrown the trainer away.
Passenger Wendy Kemp, who was on the train at the time, said in a statement read to the hearing: 'It looked like he was pretending to take a penalty when his shoe flew off.'
Anne Anderson saw the whole incident and tried to shout at Mr Minto, from West Cornforth, County Durham.
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