Three injured in railway accident

Three workers have been injured while carrying out repairs to power cables on a railway line in Essex.

Network Rail said they were taken to hospital after the accident occurred at about 1400 BST near Ingatestone.

"The three men fell up to 20ft from an elevated platform, which appears to have failed," a British Transport Police spokesman said.

Disruption to travellers had been caused by a train bringing down a mile (1.6km) of electric cable on Monday.

Paramedic Chris Allen, of the East of England Ambulance Service, said: "One man had suffered head and chest injuries and another suffered minor leg injuries.

"A third patient, approximately middle-aged, suffered head injuries and chest and leg pain and was flown to Queen's Hospital, Romford."

The line which runs from London Liverpool Street to Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich was closed for an hour-and-a-half following the incident, and subsequent services disrupted.

British Transport Police said an investigation was under way.