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	Quintinshill rail crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quintinshill rail crash occurred on 22 May 1915, at Quintinshill, an intermediate block station on a double line with refuge loops on the Caledonian Railway near Gretna Green in Scotland.
		The Quintinshill disaster would have been avoided if the line had been equipped with track circuits, which detect the presence of trains and can prevent the signals being changed to "clear".
		The Quintinshill signal box was also supplied with "lever collars", a device fitted to the signal levers to remind the signalmen not to clear that signal because of some obstruction, but, despite written instructions, the signalmen had got out of the habit of using them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quintinshill (1228 words)

	News & Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The name Quintinshill means nothing to most people – even in this region – yet it was the scene of a tragedy every bit as shocking as the terrible events at nearby Lockerbie 73 years later.
		The goods trains were placed in sidings at Quintinshill to allow the passenger trains to pass and the slow train to Beattock was halted at the crossover to allow the northbound express through.
		Quintinshill is being broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday on ITV Border
	www.newsandstar.co.uk /weekendlife/viewarticle.aspx?id=225962 (1028 words)

	Rail Safety and Standards Board - Formal Inquiries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At approximately 0906hrs, in the vicinity of Grahamshill, the right-hand bearing of the leading wheelset on the leading OTA wagon failed, causing that wheelset to derail.
		At about 366 metres from the Quintinshill trailing crossover the trailing wheelset of the front wagon also derailed whereupon the track began to sustain serious damage causing further wagons to derail.
		The derailed wagons caused substantial damage to the switches and crossings work, demolished 2 overhead line structures until a wagon collided with an overbridge causing the wagons to detach from the locomotive.
	www.rssb.co.uk /quintishill.asp (533 words)

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		Two signallers at Quintinshill, distracted by completing their paperwork for a shift change, forgot about a local train standing at the signal and allowed a special troop train to come through.
		The two men had an informal agreement whereby if the local train was stopping at Quintinshill, Tinsley would travel on it and start work half an hour late.
		Furthermore, The Quintinshill signal box was supplied with lever collars, a device fitted to the signal levers to remind the signalmen not to clear that signal to green because of some obstruction.
	www.rail-scc.co.uk /ContentPage.aspx?pageId=GretnaRailDisaster (954 words)

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		At approximately 06.49, as most of the men dozed or slept peacefully in the locked carriages, their train was involved in a collision with a stationary goods train on the line at Quintinshill, a little north of Gretna Green.
		The signalman in charge at Quintinshill, James Tinsley, had quite simply forgotten about the empty coal train which was left standing there in the path of the 70 mph troop train, but the nightmare was about to become infinitely worse as, less than a minute later, he noticed the oncoming northbound express from London.
		The Quintinshill crash remains to this day the worst disaster in the history of British railways.
	members.lycos.co.uk /hinckley8/train.html (393 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On 22nd May 1915, 227 people lost their lives and 246 were injured as a result of the worst disaster in the history of British Railways.
		The accident took place at Quintinshill just north of Gretna at nine minutes to seven in the morning.
		The goods trains were placed in sidings at Quintinshill to allow the passenger trains to pass.
	www.bookscumbria.com /cgi-bin/trolleyed_public.cgi?action=showprod_1934 (762 words)

	The Railways Archive :: Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Quintinshill on 22 May 1915
		May 22nd.- Double collision between passenger trains at Quintinshill, by which 224 passengers and three servants were killed, and 242 passengers and four servants injured.
		This collision was found to be due to neglect of rules on the part of two signalmen at the Quintinshill signalbox...
		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 British railway history.
	www.railwaysarchive.co.uk /docSummary.php?docID=158. (311 words)

	Caledonian Railway - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The front of the Edinburgh Princes Street Station building was a hotel and it is still in use today as a hotel.
		The main line at Quintinshill, near Gretna Green was the site of the Quintinshill rail crash, which occurred on 22 May 1915.
		A branch of the Caledonian railway, known as the Solway Junction Railway, at Kirtlebridge, led down to Annan and crossed the Solway Firth, by a 1,940 yard (1,791 metre) viaduct, to Bowness-on-Solway and Whitrigg.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Caledonian_Railway (1198 words)

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		It was the second of these trains that was involved in the crash.
		The Signalmen at Quintinshill, anxious to complete their paperwork, simply forgot the local train which should have been shunted on to a loop line but which was sitting directly outside their signal box and gave the all clear signal for the troop train to come through.
		The impact was so great that the troop train was crushed to less than half its normal length and the wreckage overturned on to the northbound line.
	www.fettes.com /scotsatwar/AZindex/g/gretnagreen.htm (292 words)

	Feature: Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Later oil gave way to gas and this proved even more lethal with a gas-fed fire causing the highest death toll in the history of accident on Britain’s railways.
		This was at Quintinshill, near Gretna Green in 1915 when 225 were killed at.
		This terrible accident spurred the introduction of electric lighting and serious fires were drastically reduced.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /features/fire/home.html (885 words)

	Romance for Gretna. . . but Romanov's big day GRETNA: SO CLOSE . . . Sunday Herald, The - Find Articles
		Gretna Green, for long the destination of choice for lustful English runaways, was little more than a crossroads and a huddle of houses until the first world war, when a new settlement was created nearby to house around 15,000 munitions workers.
		Gretna's only other claim to fame prior to this cup run was as the site of Britain's worst-ever rail disaster, 227 people having lost their lives at nearby Quintinshill in 1915.
		For Lisa and Reid Ayers, however, thoughts of tragedies past or football matches present were never going to intrude on their big day.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20060514/ai_n16365650 (857 words)

	Camelon Pipe Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The band carried out several engagements until the Quintinshill train disaster on 22 May 1915 which claimed the lives of 227 soldiers and injured 246 others.
		Royal Scots, left Larbert for Liverpool, where they were joining ships sailing for the Dardanelle's, where the British were fighting the Turks.
		However, their wooden train was involved in a horrendous pile-up with two others at Quintinshill near Gretna Green.
	www.portdownie.com /wheel/falkirk/information/camelon_pipe_band.htm (561 words)

	Gretna Bygone Days
		Solway Moss near Gretna Junction is the site of the battle in 1542 where the Scottish army of 10,000 men were routed by the English, a disaster which is said to have broken the heart of James V. of Scotland.
		In much more recent times it was the scene of another disaster when at Quintinshill on May 22 1915, occurred the worst railway accident in the history of British Railways involving a troop train and three other trains resulting in the loss of 227 lives...
		The Solway estuary was a noted spot for smuggling in the eighteenth century.
	www.gretnaweddings.com /gretna/bygonedays3.html (265 words)

	Worst UK train crash - Trains.com Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If there is another crash you would like to add send a post to tell me.
		Quintinshill is generally said to have the most casualties.
		Well all train crashes are bad, but in terms of life lost, then Quintinshill takes it.
	www.trains.com /TRC/CS/forums/1/351542/ShowPost.aspx#351542 (407 words)

	Overview of Quintinshill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A location on the mainline railway from Scotland to England, Quintinshill lies a half-mile (1 km) north of Springfield and a similar distance northwest of the English border.
		Once the site of a station and sidings, Quintinshill was the scene of Britain's worst rail disaster in 1915, with 227 people killed.
		Most of the dead were soldiers on their way to the front in the First World War.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townfirst9028.html (97 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Europe's history of rail disasters
		Days later the country suffered another tragedy when 31 people died and 66 were injured when an express train ploughed into a bus which had stalled on a level crossing in southern Russia.
		The UK's worst crash remains the collision between two trains, one carrying troops, at Quintinshill near Gretna Green, Scotland in May 1915.
		The UK capital has also suffered its share of fatal smashes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1018401.stm (412 words)

	Iain Laird's Family History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first train carried the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Peebles, with Battalion Headquarters, and A and D Companies commanded by Major J D L Hamilton and Captain A M Mitchell respectively.
		At Quintinshill, near Gretna, the train ran into empty carriages of a local train which through an oversight had been left on the main line, and was overturned and wrecked.
		Seconds later a northbound express ploughed into the wreckage and it caught fire.
	www.laird.org.uk /Scots/Gretna_Green_Disaster_1915.htm (362 words)

	Edinburgh to Inverness via Stirling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From here, on the 22nd May, 1915 a troop train left en route for Galipoli.
		At Quintinshill near Gretna Green in the Borders, the train was involved in an accident with two other trains.
		Due to signalling errors a train standing on the main line was overlooked and the troop train was accepted and ran into the rear of the stationary train.
	www.lawrieweb.com /eis/eis04.html (1710 words)

	SIAM Limited : British Traffic Control (1970 to 1985)
		A worthy successor to Reading 1954 and Lincoln 1952, with again several yards and private sidings to provide trip freight traffic, as well as the major Kingmoor Yard.
		It covers the West Coast main line from Upperby Junction in the south to Gretna Junction and Quintinshill in the north.
		There are ten track screens, each with a details screen where necessary.
	www.fortunecity.com /oasis/southend/655/siam/btc2.html (1296 words)

	1915
		May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
		May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland, UK.
		May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/1/19/1915.html (785 words)

	Roll of Honour - Lanarkshire - Leadhills
		His brother William also died in the war.
		James enlisted in Leadhills and was killed in the Quintinshill railway disaster near Gretna, Dumfriesshire on 22 May 1915.
		The final toll stood at 227 killed and 246 injured.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Lanarkshire/Leadhills.html (1955 words)

	ScotClans - Scottish History - 1915 Gretna Rail Disaster
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		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 Junction near Gretna on the Scottish border causing one of Britain's worst rail disasters.
		The troop train was one of two carrying the Leith based 7th Battalion Royal Scots, Territorial Force bound for Liverpool on their way to Gallipoli as part of 156th Brigade of the 52nd (Lowland) Division.
	www.scotclans.com /history/1915_gretna.html (338 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		01-01-73 - D6854 which was badly damaged at Quintinshill in January 1973 is to be repaired at a cost of £25,000
		12-01-73 - Involved in a rear end collision at Quintinshill.
		23-02-73 - At Doncaster Works "On Decision" after its smash at Quintinshill
	www.c37lg.co.uk /fleet/fleet.asp?number=37154 (1288 words)

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