Editing London Waterloo station (section)

==Accidents and incidents==
There have been relatively few accidents at Waterloo compared to other London terminal stations. On 21 August 1896, an engine leaving the locomotive yard overran its clearance point, colliding with a departing passenger train. Five passengers were injured.{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=241}} On 5 May 1904, a linesman accidentally stepped on a signal wire. This gave a false clear signal to a goods van, which collided with a passenger train, killing one,{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=241}} while on 25 October 1913, a collision between two passenger trains at Waterloo Junction killed three people.<ref name=Kidner>{{cite book |first = R. W.|last = Kidner|year = 1977 |orig-year=1963 |title = The South Eastern and Chatham Railway |publisher = The Oakwood Press|location = Tarrant Hinton |page=19}}</ref>

On 13 April 1948, the goods hoist to the Waterloo and City line began to sink while a [[LSWR M7 class|M7 class]] tank engine was pushing loaded coal wagons onto it. The engine dropped into the hoist's [[elevator|shaft]], ending up upside-down and spurting steam over it. The driver and fireman managed to jump free, and the locomotive was rescued piecemeal and used for spares.{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=242}}

On 3 June 1960, an empty stock train formed of two [[British Rail Class 404|4COR]] [[electric multiple unit]]s overran signals and was in a sidelong collision with a [[steam locomotive|steam-hauled]] passenger train that was departing for {{rws|Weymouth}}, [[Dorset]]. A few people suffered slight injuries.<ref name=Moody>{{cite book |title=Southern Electric 1909–1979 |first=G. T. |last=Moody |orig-year=1957 |year=1979 |edition=Fifth |publisher=Ian Allan Ltd |location=Shepperton |page=147 |isbn=0-7110-0924-4}}</ref> On 11 April the following year, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a head-on collision with a [[steam locomotive]]. One person was killed and fifteen were injured.<ref name=Earnshaw7>{{cite book |last=Earnshaw |first=Alan |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7 |year=1991 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Penryn |isbn=0-906899-50-8 |page=40}}</ref>

On 10 March 2000, a passenger train collided with an empty stock train in platform 5 due to driver error. Thirty-five people were injured.<ref name=Plymouth>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/590956/R022017_170213_Plymouth.pdf |title=Report 02/2017 Collision at Plymouth station 3 April 2016 |at=para 110| publisher=Rail Accidents Investigation Branch |access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref>

On 15 August 2017, a [[British Rail Class 456|Class 456]] electric multiple unit collided with an engineers' train at the station. The passenger train was derailed, causing disruption for the remainder of the day. Three people were checked for injuries, but nobody was hospitalised.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40933704|title=Train derails outside London Waterloo station|work=BBC News|date=15 August 2017|access-date=15 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815070120/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40933704|archive-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> The cause was both a change to the interlocking, that failed to be accounted for in the test regime and that a temporary connection for testing had not been removed (probably added to overcome the change to the interlocking – it was entirely undocumented and unapproved) which meant that a set of points not correctly set was not detected. This allowed a proceed signal to be shown when it should not have been possible to do so.<ref name=RAIBinterim>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/669469/IR022017_171220_Waterloo.pdf |title=Collision near London Waterloo station, 15 August 2017 |publisher=Rail Accident Investigation Branch |access-date=20 December 2017}}</ref> The problem would have been indicated to the signaller when a previous train 'ran through' the points and moved them had the temporary connection been removed.  The temporary connection prevented this detection by providing a false feed to the detection relay. The [[Rail Accident Investigation Branch]] (RAIB) investigation into the accident concluded that mistakes were made similar to those which caused the [[Clapham Junction rail crash]] in 1988. The RAIB expressed concerns that lessons learnt from that accident were being forgotten over time.<ref name=RAIBFinal>{{cite web |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756874/R192018_181119_Waterloo.pdf  |title=Collision at London Waterloo, 15 August 2017 |publisher=Rail Accident investigation Branch |date=19 November 2018 |access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>