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Quintinshill rail disaster remembered

A memorial service was held at Stanwix Cemetery in Carlisle this morning to remember two victims of the Quintinshill disaster who are buried there.

Commemorations have been taking place across the country to mark the100th anniversary of the disaster, which killed more than 200 people.

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attended a commemoration in Gretna on Friday and around 1000 people were at a service in Edinburgh on Saturday.

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Pupils spray poppies to remember train crash dead

Leith Academy pupils spraying poppies Credit: ITV Border

Pupils from Leith Academy have been spraying poppies onto the pavement, to commemorate the 1915 Quintinshill disaster.

A train carrying hundreds of soldiers, many of them from the Leith Battalion of Royal Scots, crashed into a passenger service near to Gretna. It's remembered as the worst rail crash in Britain's history.

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