Rosebank Cemetery is a 19th-century cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the junction of Pilrig Street and Broughton Road in the Pilrig area, close to the historical boundary of Leith. The cemetery is
Memorial to soldiers killed in the Gretna rail disaster of 1915.
The old western entrance to Rosebank Cemetery (now sealed)
Rosebank Cemetery general view
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