Heavy-rail - Accident Reports

Freight train derailment at London Gateway, Essex, 24 December 2021.

Embankment washout under a passenger train at Haddiscoe, 30 January 2022.

Near miss with track workers at Bookham Tunnel, Surrey, 29 April 2025.

Location: 8 miles south east of Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkney, Scotland.

Track worker struck by a train near Surbiton station, south-west London, 9 February 2021.

Location: 30 miles south of Isle of Wight, England.

Derailment of a Northern Line tube train at Archway station, north London, 2 June 2006.

Derailment of a freight train at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, 21 January 2013.

Derailment of a freight train at Stoke Lane Level Crossing, near Nottingham, 27 August 2013.

Collision with debris from bridge GE19 near London Liverpool Street, 28 May 2008.

Derailment of an empty passenger train at Paddington station, 25 May 2014.

Derailment of a freight train at Marks Tey, Essex 12 June 2008.

Accident involving trackworker, Leatherhead, Surrey, 29 August 2007.

Near miss at Farnborough North footpath level crossing, 19 May 2022.

Collision between a passenger train and two rail-mounted grinding machines at Acton West, 24 June 2008.

Report 04/2019: Near miss between a train and a track worker at Peterborough, 20 July 2018.

Location: Off the Shetland Islands, Scotland.

Location: Off Auckland, New Zealand.

Derailment due to a landslip, and subsequent collision at Watford, 16 September 2016.

Collision at Frognal Farm User Worked Crossing, 23 October 2017.