The Quintinshill rail crash occurred on
22 May 1915, at Quintinshill, an intermediate block station on a double line with refuge loops on the
Caledonian Railway near
Gretna Green in
Scotland. Involving five separate trains, the crash killed 227 people and in terms of casualties is by far the worst
rail crash to have occurred in the UK. The accident is not well known because the majority of victims were soldiers and it occurred during
World War I, when all news was subject to
official censorship. A trial afterwards convicted two negligent railway workers of having caused the accident.
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