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Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid was compelled to interrupt the latest live show to reveal breaking news of a train emergency in Cumbria. Emergency services were deployed to a train derailment near Shap in Cumbria on Monday (November 3) with Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander confirming it as a major incident. Whilst host Ed Balls had been speaking with correspondent Richard Gaisford - who was reporting from King's Cross, London - about the shocking train attack in Cambridgeshire at the weekend, Susanna cut in to deliver urgent breaking news. "Richard sorry, we're just getting breaking news this morning. "Paramedics have been sent to a train derailment in Cumbria. What do you know about that?" Susanna enquired. Richard responded: "Yes this is the West Coast mainline, it's up in Cumbria as you say. "This is a service that appears to come off the lines in really bad weather this morning. Awful conditions. There are now paramedics attending the scene of this derailment. No one is quite sure exactly what has caused it but it will bring large delays to that area and they are suggesting that if you are thinking of taking the train this morning, you should look for an alternative route. "Perhaps heading up the East Coast mainline if going from the south to the north into Scotland was the aim of the day. Here at King's Cross this morning, we've been thinking about that train that should have arrived here on Saturday night - a service that stopped, as we know, in Huntington.", reports the Mirror. This morning, Avanti West Coast reported a train derailment between Penrith North Lakes and Oxenholme Lake District in Cumbria. Consequently, all lines are blocked and the public has been advised not to travel north of Preston on Avanti West Coast today. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander stated: "We understand there have been no injuries at present. Our main priority is to make sure we get people off the train safely," she said. "It is an emerging situation." She further clarified that the derailment is "totally unrelated" to the Huntingdon train attack on Saturday, which resulted in 10 people hospitalised with one in a critical but stable condition. "To my knowledge, this is a complete coincidence and I would hope that the onboard train staff and driver would have communicating immediately with the passengers to reassure them of the nature of this incident," she said. Earlier today, Heidi Alexander commended the courage and heroism of the emergency services. Speaking to Sky News, she said: "Most of all, I would like to say thank you to the emergency services and the one individual who is still critically ill in hospital, who is stable I'm pleased to say, but he went into work that morning to work on that train service, to serve passengers and he put himself in harm's way. "He went in to do his job and he left work a hero. And there are people who are alive today because of his actions and his bravery." She confirmed there would be increased police patrols following the attack. "Public transport generally is a low-crime environment – and this incident was absolutely horrific on Saturday night, and I don't want to take away from that in any way – but generally, our trains are some of the most safest forms of public transport anywhere in the world," she said. Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX at 6am
