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The Quintinshill Conspiracy

Up train] Quintinshill 1.4 5.50 6.0 6.0 6.4 6.4 6.6 W. Empties Gretna 1.4 - - 5.59 - 6.3 - 6.6 Empties Kirkpatrick Quintinshill (Signed) "G. Hutchinson, Rule 55, Engine 907" Gretna Kirkpatrick 1.4 6.17 6.25 - - - 6.34 - Empties Welsh ...

Author: Adrian Searle

Publisher: Wharncliffe

ISBN: 9781781590997

Category: Transportation

Page: 224

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It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.??The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield were to die, not in battle, but on home soil – victims, it was said, of serious incompetence and a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, resulting in two signalmen being sent to prison. Startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex and wide-reaching than signalling negligence. Using previously undisclosed documents, the authors have been able to access official records from the time and have uncovered a?highly shocking and controversial truth behind what actually happened at Quintinshill and the extraordinary attempts to hide the truth.??As featured in Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine, January 2014.
2013-10-01 By Adrian Searle
Transportation

Final Journey

See The Quintinshill Conspiracy , pp.235-6 . 12 See The Quintinshill Conspiracy , p.37 . 13 See The Quintinshill Conspiracy , p.41 , Note 8 . 14 2013 , Pen & Sword , Barnsley . 15 Page 38 . 16 See The Quintinshill Conspiracy , p.41 ...

Author: Nicolas Wheatley

Publisher: The History Press

ISBN: 9780750996358

Category: Transportation

Page: 304

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This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley’s work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocrats and other VIPs (including Sir Winston Churchill and the Unknown Warrior) to victims of accidents and ordinary people, Final Journey explores the way in which these people travelled for the last time by train before being laid to rest.
2020-10-01 By Nicolas Wheatley
History

Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo

Richards, Jack and Searle, Adrian, The Quintinshill Conspiracy: The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2013). Thomas, John, Gretna: Britain's Worst Railway Disaster (1915) (Newton Abbot: ...

Author: Colette Hooper

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781473510302

Category: History

Page: 240

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From the exploits of railwaymen at the Front to the secrets of railway spies who worked behind enemy lines; the manufacture of munitions in railway workshops to the role of railways in post-war remembrance – this book explores some of the remarkable stories of the railway war. Individually, each illuminates a different aspect of the conflict. Taken together, they provide us with a fresh perspective on the First World War as a whole. The Great War was the quintessential railway war. Railways helped to precipitate this mechanized conflict: they defined how it was fought and kept the home front moving; they conveyed millions to the trenches and evacuated the huge numbers of wounded. The railways sustained a terrible war of attrition and, ultimately, bore witness to its end. In Railways of the Great War, Michael Portillo and Colette Hooper tell the forgotten story of the war on the tracks and explore the numerous ways in which Britain’s locomotives, railway companies and skilled railway workforce moulded the course of the conflict. From mobilizing men and moving weapons, to transporting food for troops and later taking grieving relatives to the battlefields on which their loved ones had fallen, the railways played a central role throughout this turbulent period in our history.
2014-07-24 By Colette Hooper
History

Carlisle in the Great War

Those judged responsible for the Quintinshill tragedy were, strange as it may seem, supported by their employer, though this may be explained by the theory of the authors of The Quintinshill Conspiracy. Tinsley's family had been living ...

Author: David Carter

Publisher: Pen and Sword

ISBN: 9781783376131

Category: History

Page: 240

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How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Carlisle were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. ??Already an important railway junction, with local industrial and commercial interests reflecting its historical position on the border with Scotland, Carlisle became a key settlement in the Great War. ??The Carlisle story includes the arrival of Belgian Refugees; the care of wounded men passing through the city on hospital trains; recruiting the Lonsdale Battalion; dealing with the aftermath of the Gretna rail disaster; caring for the wounded brought to the local hospitals after major battles; the effect of the Gretna Munitions factory on the city and state ownership of public houses and breweries. Beneath these new activities normal life continued with children going to school, local government dealing with a growing population and daily work and commerce
2014-09-05 By David Carter
Travel

Footsteps in Summer

In the recently published The Quintinshill Conspiracy by Richards and Searle, the authors challenge the independence of the inquiry (even the archived report was produced on Caledonian Railway notepaper!) and argue that the criminal ...

Author: Russell George

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

ISBN: 9781784620547

Category: Travel

Page: 264

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When early retirement beckons, Russell George decides to set off on a gruelling 950 mile solo charity walk along the length of Britain from John O’Groats to Land’s End, which is about 930 miles further than he’s ever walked before. During his journey, he has to cope with an extended heat wave, loneliness, troublesome blisters, a roadside tumble and a succession of missing signposts and overgrown footpaths. He encounters a variety of incidents, including rescuing a set of keys from a departing train and finding his accommodation double-booked, but manages to maintain a sense of humour throughout. He even finds time to meet his namesake and to sample a few local beers, especially the ones with really obscure names. But there’s a darker theme. Despite much of the journey passing through countryside, the rural idyll is disturbed as Russell gradually discovers that his entire route is dotted with the scenes of tragic historical events, including air and rail crashes, maritime and industrial tragedies, battles and wartime destruction, and natural catastrophes. This is an amusing and enlightening tale of an arduous, but rewarding, journey through rural Britain during a glorious long, hot summer, depicting a slower pace of life, dramatic landscapes, an abundance of nature, and acts of kindness from complete strangers. All of the author royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
2014-11-28 By Russell George
Social Science

A Century of Man Made Disasters

Published in 2013 by Pen & Sword, The Quintinshill Conspiracy: The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster claimed that a company cover-up began immediately after the disaster. Coauthors Adrian Searle and Jack Richards, ...

Author: Nigel Blundell

Publisher: Pen and Sword

ISBN: 9781526748690

Category: Social Science

Page: 160

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A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century. It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced. The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s worst air disaster when two jumbo jets collided on the island of Tenerife. We recall the horrors of Aberfan, the Welsh village in which schoolchildren were buried alive. The story of the explosion aboard the Challenger space shuttle reveals how warnings that were ignored led to the deaths of seven astronauts. And we report on the failings that caused the nuclear nightmare at Chernobyl, a poisonous blot on the face of the globe. These and the other tragedies in this book were all man-made and, it seems, just waiting to happen. A further link between these horrific events is that they were all caused by either folly or greed—or both. But despite the tales of monstrous misfortune, many also produced heart-lifting stories of heroism, selflessness, sacrifice, and human resilience.
2019-10-30 By Nigel Blundell
History

The New Coastal History

There is much useful information about all aspects of the subject, in Solway Firth Review (Dumfries: Solway Firth Partnership, 1996). Jack richards and Adrian Searle, The Quintinshill Conspiracy: The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's ...

Author: David Worthington

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319640907

Category: History

Page: 307

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This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps bring environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal archaeology, human geography and anthropology.
2017-10-17 By David Worthington
Transportation

Scottish Steam

Locomotive CR No 121 from the class was destroyed in the 1915 Quintinshill* accident and locomotive LMS No 14442 was withdrawn ... See also www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/the-quintinshill-conspiracy/p/4088/ Caledonian Railway 'Dunalastair IV' ...

Author: Keith Langston

Publisher: Wharncliffe

ISBN: 9781845631635

Category: Transportation

Page: 240

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Scotland is renowned worldwide for its engineering prowess, which of course included locomotive building. This lavishly illustrated and detailed publication celebrates standard gauge steam locomotive building North of the Border. Focussing not only on the achievements of the major companies, North British Locomotive Co Ltd, Neilson & Co Ltd, Neilson Reid & Co Ltd, William Bearmore Ltd, Sharp Stewart & Co Ltd,and Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co Ltd it also highlights the contribution made by several of the smaller, but nevertheless significant locomotive builders. Details of the output of the several railway company locomotive building works are also included. All of the Scottish built locomotive classes which came into British Railway's ownership are featured ,and a large majority of the carefully selected images are published for the first time. Scottish Steam celebrates the significant contribution made by Scottish railway engineering workshops to steam locomotive development.
2014-08-13 By Keith Langston
Biography & Autobiography

The Infamous Sophie Dawes

But how far did she go? The book examines the mysterious death of Louis Henri in 1830 and uses newly discovered evidence in a bid to determine the part Sophie may have played in his demise.

Author: Adrian Searle

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

ISBN: 9781526717528

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 232

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She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island’s workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary France. It was the ultimate rags to riches story which would see her become the mistress of the fabulously wealthy French aristocrat Louis Henri de Bourbon, destined to be the last Prince of Condé. Her total subjugation of the ageing prince, her obsessive desire for a position among the highest echelon of French royalist society following the Bourbon restoration, and her designs upon a hefty chunk of Louis Henri’s vast fortune would lead to scandal, sensation and then infamy. The Infamous Sophie Dawes takes an in-depth look at her island background before tracing her extraordinary rise from obscurity to becoming a baroness who ruled the prince’s château at Chantilly as its unofficial queen and intrigued with the King of the French to get what she wanted. But how far did she go? The book examines the mysterious death of Louis Henri in 1830 and uses newly discovered evidence in a bid to determine the part Sophie may have played in his demise.
2020-03-20 By Adrian Searle
History

Churchill s Last Wartime Secret

It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the ...

Author: Adrian Searle

Publisher: Pen and Sword

ISBN: 9781473877733

Category: History

Page: 192

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Its been a State secret for more than seventy years. The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during the Second World War (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service. Churchills Last Wartime Secret reveals the remarkable story of a mid-war seaborne enemy raid on an Isle of Wight radar station. It describes the purpose and scope of the attack, the composition of the raiding German force and how it was immediately, and understandably, hushed-up by Winston Churchills wartime administration, in order to safeguard public morale. Circumventing the almost complete lack of official British archival documentation, the author relies on compelling and previously undisclosed firsthand evidence from Germany to underpin the books narrative and claims; thus distinguishing it from other tales of rumored seaborne enemy assaults on British soil during the 1939-45 conflict. After examining the outcome and repercussions of this astonishing incident, what emerges is an event of major symbolic significance in the annals of wartime history. Its been a State secret for more than seventy years. The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during the Second World War (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.
2016-11-30 By Adrian Searle

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