Page "London, Brighton and South Coast Railway" Paragraph 93

* Signal passed at danger – Arun Bridge, 27 November 1851, head-on collision ; The Clayton Tunnel rail crash, 25 August 1861, an excursion train crashed into another which had stopped in the tunnel, the worst accident to occur up to that time on the British railway system with 23 deaths and 176 injuries ; Wivelsfield, 23 December 1899, a Brighton train ran into the back of a boat train in thick fog.