Accidents
The ECML has been witness to a number of incidents resulting in death and serious injury:
| Title | Date | Killed | Injured | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatfield rail crash (1870) | 01870-12-2626 December 1870 | 8 | 3 | Wheel disintegrated causing derailment killing six passengers and two bystanders |
| Abbots Ripton rail disaster | 01876-01-2121 January 1876 | 13 | 59 | Flying Scotsman crashed during a blizzard. |
| Morpeth rail crash (1877) | 01877-03-2525 March 1877 | 5 | 17 | Derailment caused by faulty track. |
| Thirsk rail crash (1892) | 01892-11-022 November 1892 | 10 | 43 | Signalman forgot about a goods train standing at his box and accepted the Scotch Express onto his line with inevitable consequences. |
| Grantham rail accident | 01906-08-1919 August 1906 | 14 | 17 | Runaway or overspeed on junction curve causing derailment - no definite cause established. |
| Welwyn Garden City rail crash | 01935-06-1515 June 1935 | 14 | 29 | Two trains collided due to a signaller's error. |
| King's Cross railway accident | 01945-02-044 February 1945 | 2 | 26 | Train slipped on gradient and slid back into station. |
| Potters Bar rail crash | 01946-02-1010 February 1946 | 2 | 17 | Local train hit buffers fouling main line with wreckage hit by two further trains. |
| Goswick rail crash | 01947-10-2626 October 1947 | 28 | 65 | Edinburgh-London Flying Scotsman failed to slow down for a diversion and derailed. Signal passed at danger |
| Doncaster rail crash | 01951-03-1616 March 1951 | 14 | 12 | train derailed south the station and struck a bridge pier |
| Goswick Goods train derailment | 01953-10-2828 October 1953 | 0 | 1 | 'Glasgow to Colchester' Goods train was derailed at Goswick. |
| Connington South rail crash | 01967-03-055 March 1967 | 5 | 18 | Express train was derailed. |
| Thirsk rail crash | 01967-07-3131 July 1967 | 7 | 45 | Cement train derailed and hit by North bound express hauled by prototype locomotive. DP2 |
| Morpeth rail crash (1969) | 01969-05-077 May 1969 | 6 | 46 | Excessive speed on curve. |
| Penmanshiel Tunnel collapse | 01979-03-1717 March 1979 | 2 | Two workers killed when the tunnel collapsed during engineering works. | |
| Morpeth rail crash (1984) | 01984-06-2424 June 1984 | 35 | Excessive speed on curve. | |
| Newcastle Central railway station collision | 01989-11-3030 November 1989 | 15 | Two InterCity expresses collided. | |
| Morpeth rail crash (1992) | 01992-11-1313 November 1992 | 1 | Collision between two freight trains. | |
| Morpeth rail crash (1994) | 01994-06-2727 June 1994 | 1 | Excessive speed led to the locomotive and the majority of carriages overturning. | |
| Hatfield rail crash | 02000-10-1717 October 2000 | 4 | 70 | InterCity 225 derailed due to a failure to replace a fractured rail. The accident highlighted poor management at Railtrack and led to its partial re-nationalisation. |
| Great Heck rail crash | 02001-02-2828 February 2001 | 10 | 82 | A Land Rover Defender swerved down an embankment off the M62 motorway into the path of a southbound GNER Intercity 225. |
| Potters Bar rail crash (2002) | 02002-05-1010 May 2002 | 7 | 70 | Derailment caused by a badly maintained set of points. Resulted in the end of the use of external contractors for routine maintenance. |
| Copmanthorpe rail crash | 02006-09-2525 September 2006 | 1 | A car crashed through a fence onto the line. |
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)