A teenage boy died after leaning out of a train near Malvern station in Melbourne’s south-east on Friday night.


Paramedics were called to a site near the station at 9.05pm after reports that a passenger had been injured.


Police say the Beaumaris boy, 17, was travelling with two companions when he leaned out of the driver’s cabin at the back of the Caulfield-bound train.


It is believed the boy’s head struck a a signalling pole as he leaned from the door of the moving train, about 200 metres from the station.