A woman has died after she was hit by a train in Melbourne’s south this morning.
The victim, aged in her 40s, had ducked under a railway boom gate and was clipped by a city-bound train at Aspendale Railway Station just before 8.20am.
A police spokeswoman said it appeared the woman had stopped at the railway crossing, between Station Street and the Nepean Highway, and waited for a Frankston-bound train to pass.
When that train had gone through she ducked under the boom gate, not realising there was another train coming from the opposite direction.
She was clipped by the second train and died at the scene.
Intensive care paramedic Nanto Cielens said he arrived to find the woman lying in the middle of the railway tracks.
‘‘The woman did ... have massive head injuries, and she died at the scene within around half-an-hour,’’ he said.
‘‘Witnesses have told us that it looked like she had been trying to cross the tracks when she was hit’’.
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.
A section of the Frankston railway line has been closed while police investigate the accident.

Metro spokesman Chris Whitefield said buses would replace trains between Mordialloc and Carrum railway stations until further notice.
He warned commuters to expect delays on the Frankston line.
The Age