The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on May 22, 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people, and is the worst rail disaster in British history.

This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals). Michele is a ham radio operator N8CSX and a self-professed disaster historian. Andy is N8ACJ and the residential railroad specialist.

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