Peak hour trains were held up this week following a suicide of a teenage boy on the tracks near Vasco station around 5pm, the Daily Voice reported.

Police said the 19-year-old walked towards the oncoming train and as a result was sliced in half across his stomach.

In a gruesome incident, cops collected the top half of the boy?s body while forensics collected the lower section.

Curious onlookers watched on as police surveyed the area collecting pieces of evidence.

Goodwood police spokesperson Wayne Theunis verified that a 19-year-old boy threw himself under a moving train.

"The boy has not yet been identified, we are still waiting for someone to come forward and identify the body," he said.

An eyewitness confirmed that the boy committed suicide near Vasco station, Metrorail spokesperson Riana Scott said.

Scott also added that trespassers gain illegal access to railway reserves, often by breaking through fences which then create informal pedestrian routes, even when bridges or subways exist.