{"id":737961,"date":"2026-08-14T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737961\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:10:13","slug":"the-train-swung-wildly-says-passenger-on-board-derailed-service-in-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737961\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The train swung wildly,&#8217; says passenger on board derailed service in Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/bbc-verify.71bca62fc4.svg\" alt=\"BBC Verify\" height=\"2.5rem\" width=\"11.6875rem\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-901ql1-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>What we know about the train derailment in Essexpublished at 16:39 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:39 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image of a derailed train that has come off the tracks next to a fence in Essex.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8456d9-da97-493e-ae0c-e37939ed7117.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1535\" height=\"1537\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By James Kelly and Richard Irvine-Brown<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify is analysing images from a train derailment in Essex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Images show a Greater Anglia train with at least one carriage that has come off the rails in Wickford, Essex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The derailment happened near an overhead walkway between Salcott Crescent and Russell Gardens, 1km (0.7 miles) east of Wickford station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Images also show air ambulances landing in an open space a further 800m to the east, near Meresa Crescent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Data from the website OpenTrainTimes shows the train was a Southend to Liverpool Street train, which left Rayleigh at 14:06 but failed to reach Wickford at 14:11 as planned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The images above and below this post have been verified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image of a derailed train that has come off the tracks next to a fence in Essex - image taken at a side angle.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/56045dd7-5d5c-4ba3-93ae-239d7cd1252b.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1536\" height=\"1582\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we know about the train derailment in Essexpublished at 16:39 BST 16:39 BST Image source, . By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}