Railway Station at Brentwood in Essex

Brentwood Railway Station c.1909 [Author's Collection]. Map extract from Ordnance Survey Sheet 161 London NE - OS One-Inch Map Depicted 1954, Published 1960. Crown Copyright. Reproduced with kind permission of the National Library of Scotland under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Brentwood Railway Station c.1909

Dating from the Edwardian period, this photograph shows Brentwood railway station from Warley Hill, the road forming part of the route between Brentwood and Warley. A row of cabs, along with drivers in top hats, can be seen waiting for their passengers. They may have not had long to wait as a locomotive was steaming into Brentwood. The station can trace its history back to July 1840 when it was opened as a temporary terminus by the Eastern Counties Railway on what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. Like many stations, the accident book filled up with reports of incidents. For example, in October 1889 Alfred George Deadman, a 14-year-old boy slipped between the platform and a goods train that was passing through, and was instantly killed, his head being nearly severed from his body.¹ In November 1902 two trains collided in the station but, thankfully, there were no fatalities.²

References
1. "The Fatal Accident at Brentwood Railway Station" : Essex Newsman; October 14th, 1889, Page 3.
2. "Serious Collision at Brentwood Railway Station" : Essex Times; November 26th, 1902, Page 2.

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