| Place | Hither Green, Kent |
| Date | 5 Nov, 1967, 9.16 p.m. |
| Railway Company | British Rail, Southern Region |
| No of Fatalities | 49 |
| Cause of Accident | Derailment |
| Brief description of events | 19.43 Hastings to Charing Cross was approaching Hither Green at speed when a wheel struck a small wedge shaped piece of steel that had broken away from the end of a running rail. This piece of broken rail caused a derailment. Poor track maintenance was blamed. |
| Source/Bibliography/Further Reading | Bexhill Observer, 1st December 2008 The Times, 7th November 1967 |
| ASHLEE, Rose Margaret, 36, Gladstone Road, Crowborough, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 312 | |
| ASHMORE, Elizabeth Tamara, 20, Headley Down, Bordon, HAM, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 376 | |
| AUSTIN, Howard L., 17, Etchingham, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 376 | |
| BARTLETT, Janet E., 18, Old Bakery, The Ridge, Hastings, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 378 | |
| BOHANE, Jennifer Ann, 26, Saxonbury, Mayfield Lane, Wadhurst, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 271 | |
| BRANCH, Jacqueline, 16, London Road, Hurst Green, SRY, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 378 | |
| BREEDS, Gay E., 17, Student at Thomas Peacocke, now Rye College, Cross Way, Addington, SRY, Bench erected Rye SSX in memory, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 312 | |
| BREEDS, Judith M., 21, Student at Thomas Peacocke, now Rye College, Cross Way, Addington, SRY, Bench erected Rye SSX in memory. Daughter of Mary Breeds, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 312 | |
| CANNON, Dorothy V., 57, Priory Road, Hampton, MDX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 371 | |
| CHARLTON, Kathleen, 73, Bollo Lane, Chiswick, London W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 310 | |
| CHEVALLIER, Veronica B., 34, Eamont Street, St John's Wood, London N.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 376 | |
| COVENEY, Eric G., 64, Eckington House, South Tottenham, London N., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 340 | |
| CRONK, Terence D., 19, Bishops Close, Wateringbury, KEN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 238 | |
| DUTCH, Edith Olive May, 65, Walham Grove, Fulham, London S.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 340 | |
| FLETTON, Eric H. O., 64, Loughton Way, Buckhurst Hill, ESS, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 272 | |
| FORSTER, Rev. Harold Theodore Gibso, 51, Harrow, MDX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 377 | |
| HARDWICK, Julia H., 28, Mayfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, KEN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 273 | |
| HARDWICK, Marion Gay, 23, Mayfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, KEN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 273 | |
| HAYCRAFT, Charles, 23, Rock Robin Farm, Wadhurst, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 237 | |
| HAZARD, Jacqueline A. (Mrs.), 20, Acorn Drive, Nottingham, NTT, An expectant mother, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 377 | |
| HEPPENSTALL, Gillian Mary, 29, Mark Cross, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 271 | |
| KEMP, Ella Gladys, 40, The Stream, Cartsfield, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 238 | |
| LAVENDER, Bernard John, 44, Kings Drive, Wembley, MDX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 274 | |
| LAVENDER, Irene E., 44, Kings Drive, Wembley, MDX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 273 | |
| LAVERS, Mark Clifton, 20, Bowmans, Burwash, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 341 | |
| LEWIS, Betty, 26, Serving in the Women's Royal Naval Service, Swan Terrace, Hastings, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 311 | |
| LINGHAM, Ann E., 19, Ribblesdale Road, Streatham S.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 238 | |
| MCPHERSON-HEARD, Juliet W., 20, Linden Cottage, Mill Hill, London N.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 238 | |
| MEYERS, George Alfred, 26, Tadworth Road, Neasdon, London N.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 273 | |
| REED, Dianne Sandra, 22, a teacher who married the previous week, Curzon Avenue, Enfield, MDX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 377 | |
| RITSON, Susan Anne, 21, College Glen, Maidenhead, BRK, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 341 | |
| ROLLS, Ruby Hazel H. (Miss), 48, Tottenham. London N., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 377 | |
| ROOTS, Hugh P., 19, Rolvenden, KEN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 237 | |
| SELLINGS, Geoffrey, 19, Naval cook, H.M.S Hardy, Royal Navy, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 340 | |
| SMITH, Michael, 2, Whitehall Hotel, Bloomsbury Square, London W.C., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 311 | |
| SMITH, Wendy (Mrs.), 38, Whitehall Hotel, Bloomsbury Square, London W.C., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 311 | |
| SPENCER, Richard, 21, Student at Thomas Peacocke, now Rye College, Woodhurst Road, Abbey Wood. London S.E., LDN, Bench erected Rye SSX in memory, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 340 | |
| STEWART, Rosemary, 22, Fairmead Road, Upper Holloway, London N, LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 312 | |
| THOMSON, William D., 28, Flight Lieutenant, Relatives live at Luton Road, Hastings, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 311 | |
| TREACHER, Alison Winifred, 23, Lancaster, Steyning, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 377 | |
| TURNER, Christopher Ian, 31, Cross-in-Hand, SSX, Son of Surgeon Rear-Admiral P. S. Turner, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 238 | |
| TURNER, James Gordon Melville, 60, Former Merchant Navy officer, Cripps' Corner, Staplecross, SSX, Won the George Cross in WWII, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 239 | |
| WARD, Lindsay Margaret, 19, Gunters Lane, Bexhill-on-sea, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 239 | |
| WATSON, Joyce, 48, Chartfield Avenue, Putney, London S.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 342 | |
| WHITE, Harold Arthur, 75, Bollo Lane, Chiswick, London W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 310 | |
| WHITTARD, Walter H., 64, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London S.W., LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 239 | |
| WILLIAMS, Dianna, Student at Thomas Peacocke, now Rye College, Rye, SSX, Bench erected Rye SSX in memory | |
| WILLIAMS, Mabel Lillian Daisy, 69, Henderson Court, Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead Ave, LDN, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 341 | |
| YEO, Catherine, 20, Parents live at Wadhurst, SSX, 1967/Dec Lewisham 5D 271 | |