The Quintinshill Rail Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

If the safety of others depends on you doing your job right... don't cut corners! Stay safe out there, everyone.

6:18 "Still, the worst was yet to come" WHAT MORE IS THERE

Looks to comments to see how bad its going to be First comment: "i respect the captain who shot his men rather than let them burn to death"

Dang, when you try to do your bro a solid and end up crashing three trains.

The BBC made a documentary about this a few years ago. This suggested that perhaps the railway authorities told the signalmen "ok, if you take the blame for this we'll give you another job as soon as you get out of jail." The reason for this was so investigators wouldn't look too closely into wider practices that could have contributed to the accident and the high death toll such as using wooden carriages with gas lighting and apparently trying to keep normal civilian train services running at the pre-war rate whilst expecting staff to also deal with the extra war traffic.

Don't mess with cave systems... Don't mess with medical equipment... Stay away from amusement parks... Don't flood the sky with balloons... Consider the safety of others in the work place... Or else!

I knew one of the soldier survivors. His namw was Charles "Charlie" Crooke. He was badly injured, lost 2 or 3 fingers and suffered permanent brain damage. After months in hospital, he was discharged from the army and in the 1920's immigrated to Canada with his sister who forever looked after him. His memory and speech was forever altered. When asked about the crash he would repeat over and over again, "Tea...two biscuits". It was only learned years later from a lesser injured survivor that at the time of the crash, Charles and mates had just been served tea and buscuits. That is all that he could ever recall. I met him in 1971 and met him almost daily to 1973. He never worked again since 1915.

I respect the officers that put their men out of their missary as oppose to let them burn to death.

Gotta wonder who got it worse. The soldiers who died in this tragedy or those that made it to Gallipoli

...The saddest thing is... it's not like most of them would've lived much longer anyway. They died en route to their own deaths.

I'm a railway signalman of 33 years service. Our basic training at the time was six weeks of ten hour days followed by three six hour, one on one examinations with 90% being needed for a pass, fail any and you had to retake the whole programme. Day two at the training centre was devoted to history, Quintinshill was the first case covered. To this day, it's the lesson that's stayed freshest in my mind. I should add, that at the time of the incident, there was other people not necessary for the working of the line in the box, this distraction no doubt adding one more layer to the sequence of unforgivable errors that led to this tragedy

Imagine being an officer and having to put down other men in uniform (some of which were under their command) because they would otherwise be consumed by fire and suffer a most agonizing demise. That had to be a very difficult decision to make and certainly one I wouldn't want to have to make.

My great grandmothers brother Alexander Brown was on this train. Thanks for this video I've always wanted to hear the story. His death certificate initially had cause of death as Railway Crash but was later amended to say Assumed dead and body never recovered.

My mother: "Having ADD isn't an excuse for avoiding positions of responsibility" Me, having watched this: "The Hell you say"

I am stunned by the horror of this event. I can only imagine the screams from those trapped and burning, and those who underwent amputations to free them from the wreckage. It may sound strange, but thank God for those men willing to shoot those hopelessly trapped before the fire could reach them.

Imaging being one of those signalers, watching this disaster happen, knowing it's all your fault for not being more careful just a few minutes ago.

Honestly, thank you so much for the diagram. I don't think I would have understood what was happening otherwise, and my confusion would've really distracted me from the more important aspects of this tragedy.

Yea I like how they are short but you get all the info without a lot of nothing filler. I just came across this channel today and already watched like 4 haha

I don’t even feel the photos of the scene do the horrific tragedy justice. When you announced the number of fatalities I was completely shocked.

All of these stories are like a PSA for why regulatory health and safety agencies exist. Good god so many deaths. Great channel ❤