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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 .
May 8 – Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connecting Ibach, Schwyz, and Brunnen Schifflände, Switzerland. May 22 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 226 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is blamed on negligence by the signalmen during a shift change at ...
On 17 December 1915, in the early morning in fog, a goods train ran out onto the main line past St Bedes signal box having been banked in the rear up the incline by a six-coupled tank engine. The banking engine, uncoupled, dropped away from the goods train and came to a stand on the up main line, but was not seen by the signalman.
The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [a] The second worst, and the worst in England's peacetime history, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1]
Quintinshill rail disaster May 22 – United Kingdom – In the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, a troop train collides with a stationary passenger train and another passenger train crashes into the wreckage, which also involves two stationary freight trains. The passenger cars are wooden-bodied and a serious fire ensues.
A burning carriage in the aftermath of the Quintinshill rail accident, 22 May 1915. Druitt studied at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.After graduating, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1878, captain in 1883, major in 1896 and finally lieutenant colonel in 1904.