Emergency services were called to Bourne End train station yesterday after an ‘elderly woman’ had a heart attack.

British Transport Police and Thames Valley Police attended an incident outside the train station between 9am and 11am on Thursday, June 13.

Alan Mason, who works at The Furniture Recycling Shop opposite the station, said “five or six” police cars were at the scene when his shift began at 9:30 as well as "three or four" ambulances and an air response unit.

A nearby resident who didn’t want to be named said they saw “an elderly woman” being transported into one of the ambulances on a stretcher, looking “unconscious but not injured”.

They said they thought it was “unusual” for “that many police” to attend what appeared to be a relatively minor incident, but added that the emergency services “all left quickly” after the woman was put in the ambulance.

A spokesperson for British Transport Police confirmed today (June 14) that officers were responding to a “medical incident”, where "an individual suffered a cardiac arrest and was conveyed to hospital".

Thames Valley Police was initially called to the station by the South Central Ambulance Service before transferring the incident to the force's rail-focused counterpart.