[7] In 1929, the LNER introduced luxurious Pullman day excursion trips from Liverpool Street to various seaside resorts.

The service, known as the Eastern Belle, served Felixstowe on Mondays, Frinton and Walton on Tuesdays, Clacton on Wednesdays, and Thorpeness and Aldeburgh on Thursdays and Fridays.

On 12 August 1987 a passenger train over-ran the buffer stops at Walton-on-the-Naze and became embedded in the station building.

The 1:05 pm service from Thorpe-le-Soken, formed of a single Class 313 unit, was severely damaged and an investigation blamed failure of its brakes as the primary cause of the accident.

[9] On 26 August 2002 a railtour charter train, hauled by a pair of Class 58 diesel locomotives, collided with the buffers at low speed at Walton-on-the-Naze.