East Midlands Railway announced the incident at 10 am on Thursday 7 March.
EMR said:
‘We are sad to report that a person has been hit by a train.
‘This has occurred between Boston and Skegness and is disrupting our trains on the Nottingham to Skegness route.
‘Emergency services are en route to manage the incident.
‘Trains cannot run between Boston and Skegness.
‘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 1200.’