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Quintinshill Disaster 22 May 1915


Quintinshill Disaster 22 May 1915 | National Records of Scotland

The accident. At 6.45 on the morning of 22 May 1915, a troop train carrying soldiers of the 1/7th Battalion Royal Scots crashed into a stationary local ...

Quintinshill rail disaster - Wikipedia

The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in ...

Quintinshill Train Crash - The Royal Scots

At 3.45am on Saturday 22 May the first train left Larbert Station carrying Battalion Headquarters, A and D Companies. The accident happened at 6.49 a.m. The ...

The 1/7th Royal Scots and the Quintinshill Rail Disaster : 22 May 1915

A set of loops, sidings and signal boxes were constructed, one of these was near the hamlet of Quintinshill, just north of Gretna.

1915 - Gretna Rail Disaster - ScotClans

On the 22nd May 1915 Three trains; a special troop train, a local train and ... Quintinshill Junction near Gretna on the Scottish border causing one of Britain's

Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Quintinshill on 22 May 1915

The report into the collision between three trains and subsequent fire at Quintinshill, near Gretna, which killed 227 people and stands as the worst accident in ...

The Centenary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster

One hundred years ago, on 22 May 1915, the UK witnessed its worst ever rail crash at Quintinshill, near Gretna Green, when 5 trains were involved in a ...

May 1915: The Gretna Rail Disaster - The Engineer

On 22 May 1915, five separate trains were involved in a devastating crash at the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Quintinshill Rail Disaster 1915 - Local History Resources for Schools

The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in ...

The Quintinshill Rail Disaster | A Short Documentary - YouTube

"On the 22 May 1915, a fully-loaded troop train was passing close to Gretna Green in Scotland. The train was bound for Liverpool.

They Shall Never Grow Old: The 1915 Quintinshill (Scotland) Train ...

The Accident. The morning of the 22nd of May 1915 saw a freight train parked on the Down Loop, which left both mainline tracks and the Up ...

Community: Quintinshill Rail Disaster | Lives of the First World War

At 6.49 am on Saturday 22 May 1915 a Liverpool-bound troop-train carrying half of the 7th (Leith) Battalion, The Royal Scots collided head on with a local ...

Quintinshill Railway Disaster 1915 | Carlisle Library's Local History ...

... May 22nd 1915 - Britain's worst railway disaster just over the border at Quintinshill, Gretna. Hosted by Stephen White. More Cumbrian ...

The Quintinshill Rail Disaster (22nd May, 1915): A conspiracy of the ...

The ensuing fire and carnage killed over 200 people. This disaster can be seen as a prime example of why workers unions are critical.

Story: Quintinshill Rail Disaster | Lives of the First World War

22nd May 1915. Killed in a rail crash at Quintinshill, near Gretna Green. At 6.49 am on Saturday 22 May 1915 a Liverpool-bound troop-train carrying half of ...

Quintinshill rail disaster remembered 100 years on - BBC News

More than 200 people died when three trains crashed at Quintinshill in Dumfries and Galloway on 22 May 1915.

Accident at Quintinshill on 22nd May 1915 - The Railways Archive

Accident at Quintinshill on 22nd May 1915. Location: Quintinshill. Train Operator: Caledonian Railway. Primary Causes: Signaller error, failure to operate rule ...

The Quintinshill Rail Disaster - Films Media Group

On May 22, 1915, multiple trains, including one carrying soldiers to the front, crashed near the border between Scotland and England.

Quintinshill - The Signalling Record Society

At 0649 on the morning of Saturday 22 May 1915, a collision between a local passenger train, a troop train and a sleeping car express right ...

The Quintinshill rail disaster - The British Newspaper Archive Blog

On May 22nd 1915, a devastating crash involving a total of five trains, killed 226 people and injured a further 246.