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'Funeral Trains' with Nicholas Wheatley

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This lavishly illustrated presentation covers the use of railways in the repatriations of several service personnel during and immediately after the Great War, 1914-1919.


The Quintinshill Rail Disaster 22 May 1915 - with David Carter.

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David will examine the events surrounding the notorious multi-train rail crash at Quintinshill Junction, near Gretna, when a southbound troop train carrying territorials of the Leith based 1/7th Royal Scots slammed into a local service. With over 220 dead, and a similar number injured, it remains the worst crash in the history of the railways in...