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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 .
The accident at St Bedes Junction was one of several serious accidents in 1915. It featured a double collision and fire fuelled by gas, characteristics shared by a much worse accident that year at Quintinshill. There were also similarities in that a signalman was unaware of the presence of a train near his signal box and rules were not observed.
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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)
Coin slab is a type of holder for a coin. Slabbed coins are typically from one of the coin grading companies. The practice of sending coins to third-party grading companies and then "slabbing" them began in 1986. When a grading company grades the coin it is sealed in a tamper proof slab with a barcode and a hologram. To prevent counterfeiting ...
Below are the mintage figures for the United States quarter up to 1930, before the Washington quarter design was introduced.. The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at (parentheses indicate a lack of a mint mark):