Site Of The Quintinshill Rail Disaster
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Site Of The Quintinshill Rail Disaster
Image: © James T M Towill Taken: 5 Aug 2014
Viewed from Blacksike Bridge looking south. This is the location of the worst UK rail disaster when 227 were killed in a five train collision on 22nd May 1915. The nearby Devil's Porridge Museum is worth visiting and tells the story of the disaster. See http://www.devilsporridge.org.uk/ See also documents at http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=85
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