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Quintinshill rail crash
Unknown, 1915, Press cutting, Reproduction
Quintinshill rail crash
Quintinshill rail crash
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Item no
38291
Title
Quintinshill rail crash
Description
'One of the express engines on top of the wreckage of the troop train. The tender, which is being raised by crane, was thrown down a bank'.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1915
Size
9 x 16.5 cm
Type
Press cutting
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Reproduction
216 soldiers of the 7th (Leith) Battalion of the Royal Scots were killed in the Gretna Rail Disaster on 22nd May 1915.
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Leith Miscellany Vol XII
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