Train services were disrupted for an hour after a woman was seen on the railway line near Chelmsford.
The woman, in her late 30s, was seen on the railway line on the viaduct over Central Park at just after 5pm yesterday, by an off-duty Metropolitan Police officer.
The British Transport Police were informed and train services were halted on both lines. Two trains already in Chelmsford station remained there.
A spokesman for Essex Police said officers then began speaking with the woman, who was standing by the line.
"We finally managed to talk to her and persuade her to come down around 5.50pm. The train services were then resumed," said the spokesman.
The woman is a patient at the Linden Centre, a psychiatric unit at Broomfield Hospital, and the spokesman said she was returned there.
Published Tuesday July 27, 2004
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