Experience the well-researched exhibition in the former 7th (Leith) Battalion drill hall in Dalmeny Street, just off Leith Walk, during the period 19 – 24 May 2025 to mark the 110th anniversary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster on 22 May 1915 in which 216 members of the Battalion were killed and many more injured. The Battalion was travelling from Larbert, where it had been training, to Liverpool Docks to board a ship bound for Gallipoli. A local community Remembrance Service will be held at Quintinshill and Gretna on Thu 22 May and the annual Regimental Memorial Service will be held on Sat 24 May in Rosebank Cemetery, where many of the victims were buried.
Details of the train crash, the worst ever in UK, are at http://www.theroyalscots.co.uk: Heritage (1st World War). Further details will follow in the Upcoming Events.