What the records say
- When
- 30 Jan 1958
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.54° N, 0.16° E
- Description
- 1958 rail accident in London
- Deaths
- 10
- Injured
- 89
- Participants
- 1000
- Cause
- fog, signal passed at danger, human error
Dagenham East rail crash
1958 rail accident in London
The Dagenham East rail crash was a fatal railway accident that occurred on the evening of 30 January 1958 in Dagenham, England. It was a rear-end collision of two steam trains caused by a signal passed at danger in dense fog on the London, Tilbury and Southend line in the Eastern Region of British Railways. With 10 fatalities and over 90 injuries, it was the worst disaster on the line.
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