A person has been hit by a train between Nottingham and Lincoln

East Midlands Railway announced the incident at 1:44 pm on Sunday 14 December.

EMR said:

‘Line closed between Lincoln Central and Nottingham.

‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Lincoln Central and Nottingham and is disrupting our trains on the Matlock/Derby/Nottingham/Cleethorpes and Crewe/Derby/Nottingham/Lincoln routes.

‘Emergency services are en-route to manage the incident. They are due on site at 13:55.

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‘Trains running through the area in both directions will not run between Lincoln Central and Nottingham until further notice.

‘At present we are expecting the line to re-open in the next 90 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 15:10.’

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