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At 6:50am on 22 May 1915, a train packed with First World War troops travelling from Larbert, Stirlingshire, collided with a local passenger service.
Straight afterwards, a Glasgow-bound express train smashed into the wreckage at the Quintinshill signal box, setting off a devastating fire which engulfed the troop train, packed with nearly 500 members of the Leith Battalion of the Royal Scots. More than 227 soldiers and civilians were killed and a further 246 people were injured.
The troops were on their way to Liverpool, where they were due to sail to the front line of the war in Gallipoli.
www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/quintinshill-rail-disas...
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Sidings, seldom used, are still to be seen at Quintinshill; the signal-box is no more. The West Coast Line continues to be busy with expresses rushing past. Few passengers know exactly where they are, and even fewer give a thought to Quintinshill, Britain's worst railway disaster.
military-researcher.co.uk/Gretna.html
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Originally taken and posted for the GWUK group.
Now replaced with the unedited version
Guessed by Jelltex