Quintinshill rail disaster

When

22 May 1915

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

55.01° N, 3.07° W

Description

deadliest railway accident in the United Kingdom

Deaths

226

Injured

246

Participants

5

1915 railway accident in Scotland

A multi-train rail crash occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history.

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