BIDDEFORD — An Amtrak Downeaster train struck and killed a pedestrian in Biddeford, railroad and law enforcement officials confirmed Monday afternoon.

The train hit an individual trespassing on the tracks about 400 feet west of Main Street in Biddeford just after 3 p.m. Monday, Cynthia Scarano, executive vice president of Pan Am Railways, the company that owns the railroad the Downeaster travels on, told the Bangor Daily News.

Patricia Quinn, executive director of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, the public transportation agency that oversees the Downeaster, said train 686 was involved in the accident and 61 passengers were aboard at the time.

At approximately 5:30 p.m., Quinn said, the train was due to be cleared imminently to continue on to Boston after a more than two- hour delay. She added that the 687 train, which was scheduled to leave Boston for Portland at 5:40 p.m., would be delayed by two hours.

Quinn said nobody aboard the train was hurt in the incident. The crew of the train was replaced after the accident, according to Downeaster policy.

“It’s traumatic,” Quinn said Monday evening. “It’s very upsetting for everybody when something like that happens. The crew was sent home and another crew was brought in to take the train the rest of the way to Boston.”

Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole said that the pedestrian was trespassing on the tracks at the time of the accident.

Information from The Associated Press is included in this report.

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