A WOMAN died when she was hit by a train at Slaithwaite.
The woman, thought to be in her 60s, died instantly when she was hit by a Transpennine Express train a short distance from Slaithwaite railway station at 11.30am yesterday.
Police are not treating the death as suspicious but have declined to say whether the death was an accident.
The woman, believed to be from Huddersfield, was hit by the 10.35am Manchester Airport to Middlesbrough service.
Rail services in both directions between Greenfield and Huddersfield were suspended while the incident was investigated.
But train services resumed at 1pm.
A British Transport Police (BTP) spokesperson said: “BTP officers were called to Slaithwaite rail station, Huddersfield, on Friday, February 25, after a report that a woman had been struck by a train.
“Officers from BTP and West Yorkshire Police attended the incident, which was reported to police at 11.28am and is currently being treated as non-suspicious.
“Paramedics from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service also attended but the woman, believed to be in her 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
“A file will be prepared for the coroner.”
It is the second such tragedy in the Colne Valley in three months.
Another woman was killed in December when she was hit by a Transpennine train a short distance from yesterday’s incident.
The woman was struck by a train on its way to Manchester near the Standedge Tunnel at Marsden.
On April 30, 2010, Joanne Victoria Bingley, 39, of Fartown, died instantly when she was hit at Deighton by a First Transpennine service from Hull to Manchester at around 8.06am.
Student Gareth Oates, 18, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, was killed by a train close to Marsden railway station last March.
