EMERGENCY services raced to a railway tunnel in Greenock this morning after a man became trapped.

Police, fire and ambulance crews were called out after the distressed victim was heard screaming for help. The dramatic scenes unfolded around 7am this morning on the old line which used to run in to the Container Terminal, on Union Street near to the current M & J Timber premises.

The alarm was raised when a man was heard crying for help after becoming stuck.

Chris King, manager of M&J Timber, said: "When I arrived this morning, a police car come flying down Union Street then down the hill to the yard. Police asked me if I heard anyone shouting for help.

"It's a secure are owned by Clydeport. I don't know how the man could have got in there. Police were struggling to get in." A council worker nearby added: "The man was underneath the railway bridge, he had to be cut out.

"Paramedics checked him out in the ambulance and he was all right." He is not understood to have been badly injured as a result of the ordeal.

A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said: "Police, ambulance and fire crews attended after reports were received of an injured man who was in an awkward situation.

"He was not seriously injured."