Service to commemorate Scotland’s worst rail disaster 109 years on

 

It is remembered as Britain’s worst rail tragedy and generated a fire so intense some victims were reportedly shot to spare them the agony of burning to death.

 

The disaster unfolded in the morning of May 22, 1915, when a troop train carrying half (498 all ranks) of the 7th (Leith) Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) (7RS), collided with a stationary passenger service outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green.

 

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