East Midlands railway announced incident at 10:30 am on Monday 23 March.
‘The line is closed with Luton and Wellingborough.
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Luton and Wellingborough and is disrupting our trains on the London/Derby/Nottingham/Sheffield and
‘Emergency services are en-route to manage the incident. They are expected to arrive at 10:40
‘Trains running through the area in both directions cannot run.
‘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 1330.’
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