A man was struck and killed by a train near Wolvercote in North Oxford yesterday.

Thames Valley Police, South Central Ambulance Service and the British Transport Police were called after the body was found on the line beneath Wolvercote Bridge, Godstow Road, at 2.15pm.

Police remained at the scene for several hours.

Services to London and Banbury were delayed by up to 90 minutes, and trains between Oxford and Hanborough were also disrupted.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: "Police are not treating it as suspicious.

"Trains were running again by 3.37pm and services were back to normal."

An ambulance spokesman said: "We were asked by the railway authorities to attend an incident on the line at Wolvercote Green.

"A person was struck by a train and was found deceased at the location."

Trains to Manchester were severely delayed. Retail worker Cathy Shaw, 27, was going home to Birmingham on a Manchester-bound train after coming to a conference in Oxford.

She had planned to get an earlier train, but had to wait for one due to leave at 6.34pm. It was slightly delayed.

She said: "After a day at work you just want to get home, but if there is an incident like this there is not a lot you can do about it.

"I have been on a train before which was delayed because someone had been hit, and there were people involved who were more severely affected than me."