A CALL for help was made to passengers on a train after an elderly man collapsed and hit his face.

A conductor had to make the announcement: "Is there a doctor on the train?"

An off-duty medic, believed to be a doctor, stepped in to help the man as the train waited at Bromsgrove Railway Station.

The man is then thought to have then got off the train with the assistance of rail staff.

The man was travelling on the London Midland 7.59am train from Birmingham to Hereford.

Paramedics from West Midlands Ambulance Service were on the scene in eight minutes, after receiving a call from London Midland at 8.23am.

A spokesman for the service said: "We were called to Bromsgrove Railway Station, platform 4, to reports of an elderly gentleman who had collapsed and hit his face and was bleeding from his nose.

They added: "A single ambulance was sent to the scene."

He was taken to the Alexandra Hospital in Woodrow Drive in Redditch.

Passengers had an 11 minute wait at Bromsgrove Station.

A London Midland spokesman said that when a passenger is taken ill they can be helped off the train and wait for an ambulance on the platform but if this is not possible the train will wait until paramedics arrive.