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Person taken to hospital after casualty on tracks at West Hampstead station

Published at 10:10am

A person has been taken to hospital after emergency services were called to a casualty on the tracks at West Hampstead Thameslink station late on Monday night.

The British Transport Police was alerted to the incident just before 10.30pm. Officers went to the station alongside paramedics, where the person was located.

The person was taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing. The incident is not being treated as suspicious.

The report does not say whether Thameslink services through the station were delayed by the incident.

West Hampstead is served by three separate stations — Thameslink, London Overground and the Jubilee line — and the incident was at the Thameslink station.

It follows two other casualty-on-the-tracks incidents on Sunday. On Sunday morning, a casualty on the tracks at Northwick Park partly suspended the Metropolitan line. Later that day, Thameslink services were shut after a person was hit by a train between Peterborough and Huntingdon, and that person died.

In the Northwick Park incident, the suspension was lifted at 10.31am, and the casualty’s injuries were described as non life-threatening and non life-changing. In the Thameslink incident, the lines reopened at 3.35pm, although disruption was expected until 8pm.

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Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner covers transport, major developments, education and council affairs for London Streets.
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