Accidents
On 11 October 1977 the derailed wagons of an eastbound coal train were struck by a Northfleet to Dunstable cement train between Lee and Mottingham. The locomotive ended up at the bottom of a garden of a house in Mottingham. There were no serious human injuries but several caged budgerigars in the garden were killed.
On 4 February 1997 an EWS fright train derailed near Bexley station (the Bexley derailment)
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