East Midlands Railways made the announcement at 7:26 pm 3 November.
EMR said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Leicester and Market Harborough and is disrupting our trains on the Sheffield/Derby/London St Pancras route.
‘At present emergency services are en route to manage the incident. They are expected to arrive at 19:45.’
How does this affect my train?
Trains running through the area in both directions where possible will go by a different route. Other services where this is not possible will be cancelled.
For Passengers at Leicester Station, you can use your ticket with London North Eastern Railway to London. To do this you will need to change at Peterborough for London North Eastern Railway services.
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 tomorrow morning.
