Service to be held mark Quintinshill Rail Disaster

A service will be held to remember all those who died in the Quintinshill Disaster.

On the 22nd of May 1915, 498 members of the Royal Scots, were on their way to Liverpool to embark for Gallipoli when their train was involved in a collision at Gretna.

The carriages were wooden and 216 soldiers died as a result of fire spreading quickly throughout the train.

Many of the soldiers were from the 7th (Leith) Battalion.

The Lord Provost will take part in an open air service of Commemoration conducted by the Rev Iain May Minister of South Leith Parish Church supported by the church choir and the Lowland Band of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

It also includes a restored coach of the type involved in the disaster.

This follows a series of memorial events to remember those lost in the disaster in 2015.