TRAINS between Reading and Wokingham are delayed after a man ran onto the line near Earley and threatened to hurt himself.

Trains from Waterloo are running as far as Wokingham but no further.

Glyn Hellam, a spokesman for the British Transport Police, said Thames Valley Police and the transport police had been called to the railway near Earley station.

He said: "Just before 4pm this afternoon we got called to Earley following a report of a man on the track.

"We discovered a man on the track threatening to harm himself. We are working to remove him safely from the situation."

At present there is no estimation of when services will resume.