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Quintinshill rail disaster

1915 CE · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Europe · Disaster

Quintinshill rail disaster
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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.

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