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Train services on the city’s busy cross city line were severely disrupted during tonight's rush hour after a schoolboy suffered a serious head injury during a fight on a train.

Officers from British Transport Police were called to Wylde Green train station at around 3:45pm after a fight broke out on board a train heading into Birmingham.

The teenager, believed to be 15, is understood to have been left unconscious after the disturbance and was taken to hospital with a head injury.

Birmingham-bound services were temporarily suspended as train staff waited for ambulance crews to move him.

During the incident a spokesman from London Midland, tweeted: “A fight broke out at Wylde Green and a child was badly injured.

“We were ordered to not to move the service until an ambulance arrived to help the child. Expect severe cross city delays during peak.”

Transport police and Network Rail also took to Twitter to say they were dealing with crowd control issues last night as the backlog of passengers crammed into New Street Station.

London Midland said delays of up to 50 minutes and cancellations were possible in both directions until 8pm on services between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley.

Witnesses or anyone with information can call British Transport Police on 0800 405040.