When signalman James Tinsley arrived late for work on the morning of May 22, 1915, he could scarcely have imagined that just 16 minutes after taking up his role at Quintinshill Signal Box, on the west coast mainline north of Carlisle, he would be deemed responsible for Britain's worst railway accident. With the local train that he had ridden to work on from nearby Gretna parked on the up mainline outside the signal box, he threw the signals, allowing...
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