Maldon East Railway Station in Essex

Maldon East Railway Station in Essex c.1920 [Author's Collection]. Map extract from Ordnance Survey Sheet 162 Southend-on-Sea - OS One-Inch Map Depicted 1957, Published 1961. Crown Copyright. Reproduced with kind permission of the National Library of Scotland under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Maldon East Railway Station c.1920

Although passenger services from Maldon East Railway Station ceased in 1964, the terminal buildings still stand, though looking curiously incongruous amid modern retail units and office blocks. It was first opened in 1848 by the Maldon, Witham & Braintree Railway. Four years later there was a destructive explosion at the station, "owing to the bursting of the boiler of a locomotive engine, which occasioned a very considerable amount of damage to the station, but was happily unattended by any case of personal injury. The glazing of the long and elegant arcade was demolished throughout its entire length, and the iron framework and girders by which it was supported, as well as the gaspipes attached, were wrenched asunder, and hung suspended from the top. A large portion of the high wall on each side of the line was knocked down, and much more of it remained in a tottering and dangerous state. The large doors opening to the carriage station were forced out, and buried beneath a heap of ruins. Not less than forty large squares of glass were broken around the station. One of the rails upon which the engine was standing was forced into the ground, shattering to fragments the wooden sleepers under it. Glass and slate from the roof were scattered over the fields to some distance, and pieces of iron from the boiler were afterwards picked in the middle of the meadow, beyond the river." ¹

References
1. "Destructive Explosion at the Maldon Railway Station" : Kentish Gazette; February 24th, 1852, Page 3.

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