Sheerness horror train crash remembered 50 years on
Published: 06:00, 26 February 2021
It was the story which shocked Sheerness and put the Isle of Sheppey on the front page of every national newspaper.
A runaway train packed with 80 passengers ploughed through the buffers, demolished the ticket office and burst out of the railway station before coming to a halt on a taxi.
Sheerness train crash photo taken by John Gamble
Incredibly, only one person died in the rush-hour disaster but 11 were injured.
We sift through the cuttings and meet some of the survivors who remembered the night the train didn t stop at Sheerness 50 years ago this week.