East Midlands Railways announced the incident.
East Midlands Railways said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train.
‘This has happened between Nottingham and Trent East Junction and is disrupting our trains on the London St Pancras / Nottingham / Sheffield route, Nottingham / Derby /route, Newark Castle / Nottingham / Crewe and the Leicester / Nottingham / Lincoln / Grimsby route.
‘At present emergency services are on site and will manage the incident.;
How does this affect my train?
Trains running through the area in both directions between Nottingham and Trent East Junction will be unable to run. We will have delays and cancellations between East Midlands Parkway and Nottingham in both directions and also between Derby and Nottingham in both directions.
Please check your journey before travelling using the online journey planners where our altered and cancelled services will show.
At present 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 12:00
