The 1944 Ilford rail crash involved the deaths of nine people, one of them Frank Heilgers, the Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds. The accident, at Ilford railway station on 16 January 1944, was due to driver error - a signal passed at danger on foggy conditions.[1] The 2.40pm express passenger train from Norwich to London Liverpool Street station ran into the back of the 2.38pm express passenger train from Yarmouth, on the up through line at Ilford station.[1]