The stabbing took place on the 18.25 GMT Saturday night LNER train service from Doncaster to London's King Cross station. Passengers reported that at least one person brandishing a knife began stabbing passengers on the train after the train stopped at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

A routine train journey in eastern England turned chaotic when multiple people were stabbed on Saturday evening.

Police made two arrests after the train was stopped in Huntingdon, near Cambridge, and say there is no sign of a terrorist motive.

A woman pleaded with the alleged Huntingdon train attacker, telling him "please don't" as he lunged at her with a knife. Dayna Arnold, 48, from Bridlington said she was lying on the carriage floor when the man stopped his attack after her words.

British police said a 32-year-old British man was on Monday charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over a knife attack on a train on Saturday.

The police are examining whether the suspect in the stabbing spree on a London-bound train on Saturday was connected to three other incidents involving a knife.

Nottingham Forest have donated £10,000 to Stephen Crean's Just Giving Page after he was praised for his role in in confronting an attacker during a mass stabbing on a train travelling to London.

Incidents like the mass stabbing on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross on Saturday are mercifully rare in Britain. But recent figures show that other types of violent crime on our rail network are not.

There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested.

The train was carrying around 85 passengers when it derailed at 06:10 - Avanti West Coast advises customers not to travel north of Preston today.