Trains delayed after death on tracks

5:20pm Friday 8th August 2008

By Martin Lea

RAIL passengers on the Weymouth-Waterloo line faced delays after a woman was killed when she was hit by a train today.

British Transport Police said a woman climbed down from the platform at Surbiton station in Surrey and was crossing the track when she was hit by a Salisbury-Waterloo service this afternoon.

South West Trains' services into Weymouth and Dorchester were delayed as a result of the incident.

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