Britain marks Quintinshill rail disaster
A HUNDRED years ago, 214 soldiers from the Royal Scots on their way to fight at Gallipoli and 12 civilians were killed in Britain's worst rail disaster.
RELATIVES of some of the victims of Britain's worst rail disaster have gathered at a memorial as they prepare for a series of commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the Quintinshill crash.
ON May 22, 1915, a train packed with 500 members of the Leith Battalion of the Royal Scots collided with a local passenger service near Gretna.
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