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Delays after person struck by train at Norbury station

4:31pm Tuesday 17th January 2012 in Local news

Delays after person struck by train at Norbury station Delays after person struck by train at Norbury station

Commuters are facing severe delays after a person was struck by a train at Norbury station.

All routes in and out of London, and to and from the coast are affected.

London Buses, First Capital Connect and Tramlink are accepting Southern tickets on all reasonable route.

A spokesman for Southern said: "We apologise for the inconvenience this is causing."

A British Transport Police spokesperson said: “I can confirm that officers attended the line near to Norbury rail station on Tuesday, January 17 following reports of a person being hit by a train.

“The incident, which was reported at 4.06pm is currently being treated as non-suspicious.

“Paramedics from London Ambulance Service also attended but the person was pronounced dead at the scene.

“Officers are now working to establish the person’s identity and inform their next of kin.”

The train involved was the 15:53 London Victoria to East Grinstead service. Click here for traffic and travel updates

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Comments(6)

ANNE GILES says...
6:10pm Tue 17 Jan 12

How sad. It does seem to be happening rather frequently these days. I was going into London today, but postponed it till tomorrow.

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bobby1956 says...
9:12pm Tue 17 Jan 12

Anne
I work on the railways and I can tell you that December & January are the worst months for railway suicides, there were around 3 or 4 on the Southern Network alone during December and there were more on the South West trains network and there is nothing that can realistically be done to stop it. It is very sad as you say, especially when it is a young person involved.

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HampshirePaul says...
9:20pm Tue 17 Jan 12

One assumes that it was a suicide and of course with many of us suffering money and debt problems there is bound to be an increase at present. It could well have been a botched atempt at cable theft. In any case my thoughts are with the drivers of the trains who are involved - jumping in front of a train is a very selfish act.

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puzzled says...
10:07am Wed 18 Jan 12

I am so sad that Anne was inconvenienced, I hope she managed to get her trip. Maybe she could give a thought for the persons family and for the people that had to deal with the accident

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jessy1 says...
12:31pm Wed 18 Jan 12

again this is becoming all to common now : ( does anyone know of any more details on this was it a man or a women ? and did they ever name the young lad the got hit by a train last month at south croydon

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JohnAustin says...
9:19pm Wed 18 Jan 12

All very sad and traumatic for the poor train driver.
However... is there any reason why these incidents bring the entire network to a standstill? There are suicides on LUL and they have learned to cope.
At Victoria last night it was chaos and nobody seems to have a clue what is going on. The platform staff were useless. Is there not any contingency plan for this sort of incident? It is not right that the travelling public have to be so massively inconvenienced. I think southern Railway and Network Rail should get a grip.

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