1000 pay tribute at Quintinshill rail crash memorial
ABOUT 1,000 people, including descendants of those who died, attended a service to commemorate Britain’s worst rail disaster.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Princess Royal were among those gathered at Rosebank Cemetery in Edinburgh to remember the people who perished 100 years ago in the Quintinshill crash, near Gretna on the Border.
The disaster claimed the lives of more than 200 troops, most of whom came from the Leith, Portobello and Musselburgh areas in and around the Scottish capital.
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