Quintinshill Disaster 1915 - Leith

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John Edward – Remembering Private James McSherry at the Quintinshill Disaster The 1915 Quintinshill Rail Disaster remains the worst rail disaster on the UK rail network.

The Royal Scots Museum Outreach project GRETNA 110 remembers the Quintinshill crash of 1915, with coverage of the anniversary exhibition at the Drill Hall.
Railway Work, Life & Death Western Front Association, South of Scotland Branch The Royal Scots Springfield and Gretna Green Community Council Noticeboard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Scottish National War Memorial The Out of the Blue Drill Hall The Devil's Porridge Museum

22 May 1915 Lest We Forget. The Royal Scots Museum Outreach project GRETNA 110 remembers Britain’s worst-ever rail disaster, the Quintinshill crash of 1915.

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Western Front Association, South of Scotland Branch event in Edinburgh, 7 September at 2pm.
Scots Guards Club, 1st Floor, 2 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR.
Speaker: David Carter, subject: "The Quintinshill Rail Disaster 1915".
Visitors are welcome. Suggested donation £5.00.
The Royal Scots

The Quintinshill Rail Disaster 22 May 1915 - with David Carter. | The Western Front Association Western Fronts: The Retreat from Mons 1914 and Retreat to Dunkirk 1940 - Compared. A lecture by Professor Gary Sheffield.

Lt. Salvesen, who died at Quintinshill, also features on the War Memorial at Fettes College.
The Royal Scots

The story of one family and the effect of Quintinshill.
https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/she-never-married-because-all-the 'She never married because all the good men died there'

'She never married because all the good men died there' The greatest rail tragedy in UK history and how it helped shape the unique Leither identity

Lots of relatives and descendants have been sharing memories, photos and the like of their own connection to the disaster.
The Royal Scots are always keen to hear of personal connections.
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A great turnout today for The Royal Scots commemoration (ALWAYS the Saturday morning closest to 22 May) and thereafter at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall exhibition
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