Editing Great Eastern Main Line (section)

==Accidents and incidents==
A number of fatal accidents have occurred on the line throughout its history:

* 1840: {{rws|Brentwood}}; four killed<ref>Cecil J Allen; 'The Great Eastern Railway' 1955</ref>
* 1872: {{rws|Kelvedon}}; one killed and 16 injured in a [[derailment]]<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=3379 |title=Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Kelvedon on 17th October 1872 |date=23 October 1872 |via=The Railways Archive |publisher=Board of Trade |access-date=6 February 2024 |first=H.W. |last=Tyler }}</ref>
* 1905: [[Witham rail crash|Witham]]; 11 killed and 71 injured in a derailment<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=72|title=Accident at Witham on 1st September 1905 |via=The Railways Archive |access-date=3 November 2018 |first=P.G. |last=von Donop |date=1 November 1905 |publisher=Board of Trade }}</ref>
* 1913: {{rws|Colchester}}; three killed and 14 injured in a collision and derailment<ref name="Webb2013">{{cite book|author=Simon Webb|title=The Colchester Book of Days|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIk7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT203|date=31 January 2013|publisher=Perseus Books Group|isbn=978-0-7524-8908-7|pages=203–}}</ref><ref name=Trevena2>{{cite book |last=Trevena |first=Arthur |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 2. |year=1981 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Redruth |isbn=0-906899-03-6 |page=25 }}</ref>
* 1915: [[Ilford rail crash (1915)|Ilford]]; 10 killed and 500 injured in a collision between two trains<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Rolt
| first1       = L.T.C.
| author-link1 = L. T. C. Rolt
| last2        = Kichenside
| first2       = Geoffrey
| title        = Red for Danger
| edition      = 4th
| year         = 1982
| orig-year    = 1955
| publisher    = [[David & Charles]]
| location     = Newton Abbot
| isbn         = 0-7153-8362-0
| pages        = 240–241
}}</ref>
* 1941: Brentwood; seven killed in a collision between two trains<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=1378 |title=Report on the Accident between Harold Wood and Brentwood on 10th February 1941 |date=28 June 1941 |via=The Railways Archive |publisher=Ministry of War Transport |access-date=5 February 2024 |first=G.R.S. |last=Wilson }}</ref>
* 1944: [[Ilford rail crash (1944)|Ilford]]; nine killed and 38 injured in a collision between two trains{{sfn|Mount|Wilson|1944|pp=1-5}}
* 1944: {{rws|Romford}}; one killed and three injured in a collision between two trains<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=1387 |title=Report on the Accident at Romford on 29th December 1944 |date=5 March 1945 |via=The Railways Archive |publisher=Ministry of War Transport |access-date=5 February 2024 |first=G.R.S. |last=Wilson }}</ref>