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

Quintinshill Disaster 22 May 1915 | National Records of Scotland

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 passenger train near ...

1915 - Gretna Rail Disaster - ScotClans

On the 22nd May 1915 Three trains; a special troop train, a local train and the night express coming north from Euston Station, London crashed at ...

Quintinshill Train Crash - The Royal Scots

At 6.49 am on Saturday 22 May 1915 a Liverpool-bound troop-train carrying half (498 all ranks) of the 7th (Leith) Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Quintinshill train collision 105 years later - YouTube

Quintinshill is a tragic example of how a railway accident is usually the result of multiple errors, not just one failure.

Quintinshill rail disaster remembered 100 years on - BBC News

Quintinshill rail disaster remembered 100 years on ... A memorial service has been held at Gretna Green for the victims of Britain's worst rail ...

Forrestdale Research - Gretna Rail Disaster

Of the 500 troops on the train, only 53 answered the roll call after the accident. 227 people were killed in total, including 3 officers, 29 NCOs, and 182 men ...

May 1915: The Gretna Rail Disaster - The Engineer

May 1915: The Gretna Rail Disaster. Archive. This month The Engineer looks back to a very dark day in British history, and the worst rail ...

Watch The Quintinshill Rail Disaster on BBC Select

Reinvestigating the deadliest rail crash in British history that killed over 200 people. Watch in the US and Canada.

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

Carlisle Library's Local History Talks | Quintinshill Railway Disaster 1915 This week, we look back to the fateful day of May 22nd 1915 ...

Forrestdale Research - Gretna Disaster - Names of those involved

The train carried gas cylinders underneath for carriage lighting, and these exploded in the crash, with the result that there are many horrific stories of men ...

Gretna Railway Disaster 100 Years Ago - Books Cumbria

The Gretna Railway Disaster 100 Years Ago ... One hundred years have come and gone since the terrible Gretna railway disaster claimed the lives of half a regiment ...

Gretna 100 Project - Out of the Blue Arts & Education Trust

In 1915 the Gretna disaster, the worst crash in the history of British rail travel, killed 227 people and injured 246 others. 102 of those killed were young men ...

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

Quintinshill Rail Disaster · A J Or A G Armstrong · James Adamson · Jonathan Combe · Thomas Clachers · James Crawford Bonnar · John Jackson · John Fisher · John ...

'The express hit us and then I lost consciousness' | Transport

In 1915, 225 people died in Britain's worst ever rail disaster ... I'd been researching the events of the Quintinshill train crash to ...

About The Gretna Rail Disaster – North and South Leith Parish Church

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 Disaster and how workers were viewed after a ...

It resulted in the deaths of 226, with 246 being injured. It involved a collision that included five trains, amongst which was a troop train ...