East Midlands Railway announced the incident on Friday 8 March.
EMR said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Luton Airport Parkway London St Pancras and is disrupting our trains on the Connect route and London/Derby/Nottingham/Sheffield.
‘Emergency services are en-route to manage the incident. They are expected to arrive at 12:50.
‘Trains running through the area in both directions cannot run. We are currently waiting for more information from the emergency services and Network Rail once they arrive at the incident.
‘At present we are expecting the line to re-open in the next three 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 1600.’
