DISASTER TO TROOP TRAIN
May 22, 1915 at 6:15 am
Three Trains Wrecked, 50 soldiers killed, 300 persons injured. A local train from Carlisle was being shunted to allow a northward express train to pass when a troop train from the north collided with it. The express almost immediately dashed into the overturned coaches and the carriages caught fire resulting in an inferno. 50 of the soldiers died in the troop train. The Regiment involved was the 7th Royal Scots. Trains involved were the 610 local train from Carlisle and the midnight train Eusten to Glasgow, and a special troop train, conveying about 550 men south. More fatalities were expected as the excavation of the burned cars and survivors who succumb to serious injuries occur., some survivors died before reaching the hospital. The troops were seated 8 in a carriage, and half the battalion was lost in the burning wreckage. The men involved principally belonged to Edinburgh and Leith. They left Scotland the previous night for the South, the Battalion which includes A and B Companies is commanded by Colonel Beebles.
Manchester Evening News: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England · Saturday, May 22, 1915
DISASTER TO TROOP TRAIN
May 22, 1915 at 6:15 am
Three Trains Wrecked, 50 soldiers killed, 300 persons injured. A local train from Carlisle was being shunted to allow a northward express train to pass when a troop train from the north collided with it. The express almost immediately dashed into the overturned coaches and the carriages caught fire resulting in an inferno. 50 of the soldiers died in the troop train. The Regiment involved was the 7th Royal Scots. Trains involved were the 610 local train from Carlisle and the midnight train Eusten to Glasgow, and a special troop train, conveying about 550 men south. More fatalities were expected as the excavation of the burned cars and survivors who succumb to serious injuries occur., some survivors died before reaching the hospital. The troops were seated 8 in a carriage, and half the battalion was lost in the burning wreckage. The men involved principally belonged to Edinburgh and Leith. They left Scotland the previous night for the South, the Battalion which includes A and B Companies is commanded by Colonel Beebles.
Manchester Evening News: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England · Saturday, May 22, 1915
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