A woman has been charged after allegedly failing to move from railway lines in Newcastle this morning.

Just after 7.10am (Monday 30 March 2015), police were called to a railway line near Mangrove Street, Sandgate, about 10km northwest of Newcastle, following reports of a woman on the railway track.

On arrival, officers attached to Newcastle City Local Area Command found a woman who had an apparatus attached to her body and the railway lines.

Officers asked the woman to leave the tracks; however she allegedly declined.

Just before 10am, rescue officers released the woman, aged 54, from the apparatus. She was uninjured during the incident and arrested at the scene, before being taken to Waratah Police Station.

The woman has been charged with cause obstruction to railway locomotive, and go onto or remain on running lines. She has been granted conditional bail, to appear at 16 April 2015 at Newcastle Local Court.