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Gretna Rail Disaster
Unknown, 1915, Press cutting, Reproduction
Gretna Rail Disaster
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Item no
38300
Title
Gretna Rail Disaster
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1915
Size
8.9 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 Quintinshill rail crash. Text reads, 'Their comrades had met their death in an inferno, which left only the skeletons of carriages, and which had twisted ironwork into shapeless masses'.
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Leith Miscellany Vol XII
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