A person has been hit by a train in the Harold Wood area on the line to London Liverpool Street Station.Delays of up 60 minutes and last minute cancellations should be expected on trains traveling along the Greater Anglia (GA) operated line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield.Valid GA tickets for journeys into and through London can be used on both the London Underground and TfL operated busses.PR account executive Tanya Braun, 24, from Shenfield, was travelling on the 19.02pm service from London Liverpool Street station when the train hit a person near Harold Wood station at about 7.30pm.The express train to Braintree was not scheduled to stop at Harold Wood.She said: "The first thing I knew of it was a bang and it felt like the train had run over something hard, like a big lump of metal. It made a loud bang as we passed through the station."The train gradually came to a halt just after the station. The driver said in a shaky voice 'we've just hit someone'. "It was very sudden. The driver said he thought we'd be here for a while. A girl burst into tears."Everyone is now just talking about how horrific and terrible it was. People are talking to each other, although it's pretty quiet."The driver is giving us updates every five minutes or so. He has just said that the police are on their way."Twitter user @Del_E7 7m tweeted: "From experience when person is hit by train, takes 1-3 hours to restore service. #HaroldWood was thirty minutes ago, so it'll be a while yet."To find out whether this will impact your journey and to get alternative options planned for you, please use the National Rail Enquiries real-time Journey Planner, or call TrainTracker on 0871 200 49 50.
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