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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 .
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.
It is a major event in Scottish history and railway history and is something people are going to search Wikipedia for. Equally there is no reason to include 1915 in the name of the article as there has been no other Quintinshill disaster that it is ever realistically going to be confused with. Dunarc 19:54, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
In 1925, a commemorative 50-cent coin was released that showed Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Money raised from the sale of the coins was combined with money raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association in order to fund the carving of a Confederate monument at Stone Mountain. [6]
Protection for coins was historically only available to affluent collectors who stored their coins in custom cabinets. [1] The first attempt at creating an album or folder like structure for coins came in 1929, when The Beistle Company began marketing coin albums. These albums were made of heavy cardstock covered in paper on both sides, with ...
An 1886-S Gold eagle in a PCGS plastic coin slab A 1/10th troy ounce American Gold Eagle in a cardboard '2x2' flip, secured with staples A coin folder offers no protection from the elements and is likely to damage coins when pressed in or popped out. Coin collectors have various options for storing their coin collections. The various options ...