'Significant disruption' on Yorkshire rail services after Retford incident and overhead line issues
This is impacting LNER services on the East Coast Mainline - as well as services heading to Manchester
There's a warning of 'significant' disruption to rail services across Yorkshire today, because of two separate incidents on the railway.
The first happened overnight on the East Coast Mainline in Retford, where police were called to concerns for someone's safety on a railway bridge.
While they were brought down safely the line was blocked for several hours, leading to LNER warning many of their trains and drivers are out of position today.
David Horne, Managing Director at LNER, said: “I would like to offer my profound apologies to all those whose journeys have been affected."
"We are aware that people were waiting at stations and onboard our trains for a long time, and we know that our customers will have been travelling for important reasons.
“I want to reassure everyone that our teams, both on the ground and behind the scenes, were working hard to get people moving towards their destinations as quickly as possible.
"However, due to the sensitivity of the incident and with the safety of everyone involved being paramount, we could only run our services through the affected area when British Transport Police determined it was safe to do so.
“We thank our customers for their patience and understanding while teams responded to the sensitive situation.”
Elsewhere, there is major disruption impact services to and from Manchester Picadilly because of damage to overhead wires.
This is affecting Northern services departing from Sheffield. TransPennine Express trains are running as normal.