East Midlands Railway announced the incident this morning.
EMR said at 7:30 am Tuesday 18 June:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train.
‘This has occurred between Bedford and Luton and is disrupting our trains on the Sheffield/Nottingham/London St Pancras International and the Corby/Luton Airport Parkway/London St Pancras International routes.’
‘There will be reduced trains running between Bedford and Luton in both directions, due to 2 of the 4 lines being closed.
’Our trains on the Corby/Luton Airport Parkway/London St Pancras International route will be suspended, until all of the lines have re opened.
‘At present we are expecting the lines to re-open in the next 2 hours. As soon as the lines are 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 10:30.’
