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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“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)