East Midlands Railways report at 4:26 pm that emergency services are attending the incident which affects Nottingham routes.
East Midlands Railways said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield and is disrupting our trains on the Liverpool Lime Street / Nottingham / Norwich route.
‘The emergency services have now arrived and are managing the incident.’
‘Where possible, trains running through the area in both direction will divert between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield.
‘The diversionary route means that our trains are unable to call at Stockport station.
‘We may not be able to divert all our trains, in which case these services may be subject to delay or alteration.
‘At present ( 4 pm ) we are expecting the line to re-open in the next 2 hours. 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 18:00.’
