EMR announced the incident at 9:46 pm on Wednesday 16 November.
East Midlands Railways said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train affecting our trains on the Corby/London St Pancras route.
‘We are unfortunately unable to run our trains between Corby and Kettering.
‘At present emergency services are en-route to manage the incident. We are awaiting an estimate of when they are expected to arrive.’
‘We will unfortuantely have to suspend our services between Kettering and Corby until the line reopens.
‘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 23:00.’
