The person was hit by a train at Gloucester Road Station (Picture: TFL Traffic News/Twitter)

A person has died after being hit by a rush hour train at Gloucester Road station.

British Transport Police were called just before 8am and pronounced the person dead at the scene.

Officers are not treating the incident as suspicious and are working to identify the person and inform their family.

The station, on both the Piccadilly and District Lines, is currently closed after the incident.


Also, the emergency services at #GloucesterRoad this morning were brilliant. 30 seconds after station's evacuation and they were already on the scene. Extremely thankful! @districtline pic.twitter.com/Hd44seHaV4 — Ashley (@AshTreees) May 11, 2018

There is no service between Earl’s Court and Embankment on the District line and there are severe delays on the rest of the line, while the entire Circle line has been suspended.

People on the train have taken to social media to say the saw a person under the Tube.



‘Someone has just jumped under the tube that I am on, we are now all being evacuated. Awful. Awful. Awful,’ said a woman on Twitter.

A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said: ‘A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said:

‘We were called at 7:52am this morning to Gloucester Road, SW7, to reports of a person under a train.

‘We sent an incident response officer, two single responders in cars, and an ambulance crew. London’s Air Ambulance was also dispatched by road.

‘Sadly a person was dead at the scene.’