East Midlands Railway announced the incident on 26 June.
East Midlands Railway said at 11 am Wednesday 26 June:
“We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train. This has occurred between Sheffield and Derby and is disrupting our trains on our London St Pancras / Sheffield / Nottingham, and Liverpool Lime Street / Nottingham / Norwich routes.
“Emergency services are en-route to manage the incident. There is currently no expectation on when they will arrive.
“Trains running through the area cannot run in either direction.
“At present we are expecting the line to re-open in the next 2 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 13:00.”
