East Midlands Railway announced the incident at 7:15 on Friday 17 January.
The train operator said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe and is disrupting our trains on the Newark Castle/ Crewe route.
Emergency services are en-route to manage the incident.
‘Trains cannot run between Stoke-On-Trent and Crewe in both directions.
‘At present we are expecting the line to re-open in the next 60 minutes. As soon as the line is open again, our priority will be to get trains running to their advertised times again.
‘We expect our advertised timetable to resume on the affected routes by 0815.’
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