BRITISH Transport Police have confirmed that a pedestrian who died after being hit by a train on the line between Carlisle and Newcastle was a 19-year-old man.
Emergency services were called to the railway lines at Tyne Green, Hexham, at 10.40am yesterday after reports of a casualty on the tracks.
British Transport Police said today that the pedestrian who was killed was a 19-year-old man.
They said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the man's family had been informed.
A report has been passed to the coroner.
Trains between Carlisle and Newcastle were affected after the line was closed, but it reopened at around 1.15pm.
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