Person hit by train near Nottingham affecting rail services

East Midlands Railway announced the incident at 10:53 am on Wednesday 5 March.

EMR said:

‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Nottingham and East Midlands Parkway and is disrupting our trains on the the Nottingham/London St Pancras, Newark Castle/Derby/Crewe, Grimsby/Lincoln/Nottingham/Leicester and Nottingham/Derby/Matlock routes.

‘The emergency services are on site.

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‘Trains running through the area in both directions can currently not run.
At present we are expecting the incident to end in about 2 hours. As soon as this happens 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 1200.’

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