The emergency services were called to Tottenham Hale Underground station just after 6am on Sunday (March 16).
The ambulance service and police responded and the station, served by the Victoria line, was closed and trains cancelled.
It was confirmed that a person died at the scene before the station reopened just before 8.30am that same morning.
A spokesperson for London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 6.33am this morning (16 March) to reports of a person hit by a train at Tottenham Hale Underground Station, Ferry Lane.
“We sent a number of resources to the scene including an ambulance crew, an incident response officer and members of our Hazardous Area Response Team.
“We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance. Sadly a person had died at the scene.”