{"id":926253,"date":"2026-04-29T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:50:15","slug":"major-train-disruption-live-as-person-rushed-to-hospital-after-incident-in-manchester-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926253\/","title":{"rendered":"Major train disruption LIVE as person rushed to hospital after incident in Manchester station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services are responding to an incident on the train line between two major Manchester stations this afternoon that has left one person in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The line between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport is currently blocked. One person has been taken to hospital after the incident at Burnage station, a British Transport Police spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Trains are either being cancelled, delayed or revised. The major disruption on the line is expected to last until at least 2pm this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a aria-label=\"Click hereLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">BTP said in a statement: &#8220;Officers were called at around 11am today (29 April) to reports of a casualty on the tracks at Burnage railway station. Officers responded with paramedics, and a person was taken to hospital. The incident is not being treated as suspicious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">National Rail said: &#8220;The emergency services are currently dealing with an incident between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport. So that they can safely carry out their work, all lines are closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Trains between these stations will be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised. Major disruption is expected until 14:00.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Network Rail Manchester said: &#8220;Delays and cancellations to train services between Manchester Piccadilly and #ManchesterAirport while emergency services respond to an incident. For the latest travel updates, please check @nationalrailenq. We\u2019re sorry to passengers impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Follow our live blog below for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services are responding to an incident on the train line between two major Manchester stations this afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,20083,7857,183,16,15],"class_list":["post-926253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-piccadilly-train-station","tag-trains","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116487849830852957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}