East Midlands Railway abounded the incident at lunchtime on Friday 16 January.
EMR said:
‘Line closed with between Crewe and Stoke-On-Trent.
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Crewe and Stoke-On-Trent and is disrupting our trains on the Crewe/Derby/Nottingham/Lincoln route.
‘Emergency services are en-route to manage the incident.
‘Trains running through the area in both directions between Crewe and Stoke-On-Trent can currently not run.
‘We are also experiencing disruption on this route between Nottingham and Newark Castle please use a journey planner to check your journey.
‘At present we are expecting the line to re-open in the next 3 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 15:30.’
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