{"id":686919,"date":"2026-07-12T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:55:12","slug":"warrington-to-liverpool-trains-cancelled-amid-sankey-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686919\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrington to Liverpool trains cancelled amid Sankey incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Rail operator, Northern, has now confirmed a person was hit by a train.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At 11.21am on Saturday, July 11, Northern, put out a post on social media to its customers confirming the cancellations due to &#8216;blocked&#8217; lines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It also confirmed customers whose services had been cancelled could use their tickets on TransPennine Express and Merseyrail services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Its spokesman said: &#8220;Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident between Warrington Central and Liverpool Lime Street, some lines are blocked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Northern customers can travel TransPennine Express runs services between Manchester Stations and Liverpool Lime Street, and Merseyrail services.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  British Transport Police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail operator, Northern, has now confirmed a person was hit by a train. At 11.21am on Saturday, July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}