\n British Transport Police were called just before 3pm this afternoon to Kirkstall Forge after a “casualty was found on the tracks”.\n<\/p>\n
\n They said that a person had been pronounced dead at the scene.\n<\/p>\n
What police have said<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for British Transport Police said: \u201cOfficers were called to Kirkstall Forge at 2.53pm following reports of a casualty on the tracks.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Paramedics also attended however sadly a person was pronounced dead at the scene.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The incident is not being treated as suspicious, and a file will be prepared for the coroner.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n RealTimeTrains confirmed the disruption is “due to a person being hit by a train”.\n<\/p>\n
Bradford and Leeds trains cancelled<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Northern also confirmed the incident happened between Kirkstall and Leeds.\n<\/p>\n
\n In addition to services at Bradford Forster Square, Frizinghall, Shipley, Apperley Bridge, Kirkstall Forge and Leeds stations being affected, the incident is having a wider impact across the network.\n<\/p>\n
\n The incident has also cancelled or delayed services this afternoon between the following stations between Ilkley and Leeds, Skipton and Leeds and Carlisle ad Leeds via Settle.\n<\/p>\n
\n A message on Northern’s website says “the emergency services dealing with an incident near the railway.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Train services running through these stations will be cancelled or delayed.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Disruption is expected until 6pm today (May 13).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Transport Police were called just before 3pm this afternoon to Kirkstall Forge after a “casualty was found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-957360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116568117192693415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957360","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=957360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}