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Police investigating after pedestrian fatally struck by GO train

CTV Toronto Published Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:56AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, January 14, 2014 10:38AM EST

A woman reads a book as a GO commuter train pulls away from the platform at Toronto's Union Station, March 4, 2008. (J.P. Moczulski / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

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York Regional Police were on the scene Tuesday morning, after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a GO train in Aurora.

The male pedstrian was struck by a train north of the Aurora GO station on the Barrie line near Yonge Street and St. John's Sideroad at approximately 6:15 a.m. Tuesday.

Rail service was temporarily suspended for the investigation of what GO described as a "trespasser fatality."

Four trains were affected:

Allandale Waterfront 5:52 a.m. train arrived at Union 2 hours and 45 minutes late
Allandale Waterfront 6:22 a.m. was delayed more than 2 hours
Allandale Waterfront 6:52 a.m. and 7:22 a.m. trains were both cancelled.

Service to the downtown Toronto Union station resumed around 8:30 a.m.