The 13.35 Glasgow Central to Euston Avanti West Coast Pendolino is worked by 390131 'City of Liverpool' and is seen passing southwards (this is a 'going-away' shot) past Quintinshill loops. This is the exact spot where the worst British railway disaster occurred at 06.49 on 22.05.1915 that resulted in the deaths of two hundred and twenty-six passengers, mainly territorial soldiers from the 1/7th (Leith) Battalion, the Royal Scots who were heading off to fight at Gallipoli tragically not even making out of their own country. On this beautiful and clear summer's afternoon, the scene is very different to the absolute carnage and resultant inferno (that killed the majority of people) that ensued on that spring morning all those years ago.
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