Quintinshill rail disaster
Videos
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
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
Hawes Junction rail crash
Videos
The Hawes Junction rail crash occurred at 5.49 am on 24 December 1910, just north of Lunds Viaduct between Hawes Junction and Aisgill on the Midland Railway's Settle and Carlisle main line in the Nort
Quintinshill rail disaster
…In 2017 a new housing area in Leith was given the street names Quintinshill Place and Gretna Place in memory of the disaster. The Hawes Junction rail crash of 1910 also involved a busy signalman forgetting about a train on the main railway line. Likewise, at the Winwick rail crash of 1934, an overworked…
Lunds Viaduct; the accident happened just after the viaduct. Moorcock Tunnel is on the extreme right of the image.
Hawes Junction station, looking north. The signal box is on the down (northbound) platform.