Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

Name: Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster
Released: 2015-05-20

20151h 0mDocumentary • History

Overview

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at Quintinshill near Gretna Green. One of the trains was a troop train taking soldiers to fight in World War I at the Battle of Gallipoli: many of the de...