The Quintinshill Conspiracy: The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster

by Adrian Searle and Jack Anthony Richards

It was the railway's Titanic. An horrific crash involving five trains in which 226 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.

The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915, Most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473842573
• ISBN13: 9781473842571
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.