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 Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history.
A burning carriage in the aftermath of the collisions
Site of the disaster photographed in 2014. Left to right: up loop; up main (where the first collision occurred); down main; down loop. The signal box was on the outside of the up loop.
The burned out remains of a carriage at the disaster scene.
The roll call of the survivors of 1/7th Royal Scots after the accident
Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Scottish side of the border between Scotland and England, defined by the small river Sark, which flows into the nearby Solway Firth. It was historically the first village a traveller would come to in Scotland when following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh. Gretna Green railway station serves both Gretna Green and Gretna. The Quintinshill rail disaster, the worst rail crash in British history, in which over 220 died, occurred near Gretna Green in 1915.
Gretna Green
Historic view of Gretna Green
An 1844 depiction of a "Gretna wedding", complete with a blacksmith and some of his implements.
1930s photo of the village blacksmiths, "famous for its runaway marriages"
