Derailment at Raynes Park

[wimbledonpete]

Hi

Does anyone have a memory of a derailment at Raynes Park involving (possibly) a 4-SUB coming off whilst turning into platform 4 bound for Chessington/Epsom? Maybe in the 70s?

I have a vivid memory of this but Google's not turning anything up. It's not the 1967 one, as far as I'm aware - in my head the first carriage of the unit is hanging down off the embankment.

Any info gratefully accepted!

Thanks

 

[Ploughman]

You could try the Railway Archive website.

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/

 

[wimbledonpete]

You could try the Railway Archive website.

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/

Thanks Bryan - nothing on there that I can see but it's a really useful website.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Are you sure this was at Raynes Park? There was one at Shepperton wasn't there, where a carriage ended up well beyond the buffers?

 

[Matt Taylor]

Yes, 508031, April 21st 1982.

 

[richw]

Yes, 508031, April 21st 1982.

Did you use the above link to research that?

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=8967


Look at the pictures, can you imagine in todays health and safety mad society the public being able to get so close?

 

[181]

Mention of a 4-SUB lying down the embankment makes me think of this accident at Hampton Court Junction (see also this picture).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Mention of a 4-SUB lying down the embankment makes me think of this accident at Hampton Court Junction (see also this picture).

Blimey! Was that trying to visit the Malden and District miniature railway?!

 

[wimbledonpete]

Thanks for all the responses. Beginning to think I've imagined it all - maybe conflated the Hampton Court incident with something else!