Train services on the main west coast train route were suspended during the morning rush hour on Monday, after a person was found dead on the tracks in Lancashire.<\/p>\n
British Transport Police (BTP) said officers were called to Leyland railway station just before 07:00 BST, following reports of a casualty on the tracks. Paramedics also attended, with the person pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Avanti West Coast initially said lines were closed between Preston and Wigan North Western due to “emergency services managing an incident”, but later said lines had re-opened. It warned “residual delays and some alterations are expected”. <\/p>\n
Transpennine Express also said disruption was expected until 10:30 BST.<\/p>\n
A BTP spokesman said: “Officers were called to Leyland railway station at 6.53am today (12 October) following reports of a casualty on the tracks. <\/p>\n
“Paramedics also attended, however sadly a person was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
“The incident is not being treated as suspicious, and a file will be prepared for the coroner.”<\/p>\n
“Following the emergency services dealing with an earlier incident between Preston and Wigan North Western \/ Bolton, all lines have reopened,” said a statement by National Rail.<\/p>\n
“As services recover, trains running through these stations may continue to be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Train services on the main west coast train route were suspended during the morning rush hour on Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800099","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\/800099","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=800099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}