East Midlands Railway face delays on Newark routes because of a fallen tree.
EMR said:
‘There is a tree blocking the railway at Lowdham.
‘This is between Nottingham and Newark Castle and is disrupting our trains on the Leicester/Nottingham/Lincoln/Grimsby route.
‘Network Rail are on site investigating the issue.
‘Trains running cannot run between Nottingham and Newark Castle.
‘At present we are expecting the problem to be fixed in the next 2 hours. As soon as the problem is fixed 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 1500.’
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