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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 .
22 May – Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green: collision and fire kill 226, mostly Royal Scots soldiers, the UK's largest number of fatalities in a railway accident. [4] 12 June – World War I: Oil tanker SS Desabla is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-17 off Montrose.
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.
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 ...
1915 Wigtownshire by-election; I. Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act 1915; N. HMS Natal; Q. Quintinshill rail disaster; U. SM U-23 (Germany)
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The authorizing act required the Mint to begin delivering coins by the opening date of the fair, February 20, 1915, and although this proved impractical, the Mint still acted quickly. McAdoo approved the choices of Aitken for the $50 pieces, Longman for the quarter eagle, Keck for the dollar, and Manship for the half dollar on January 21.