22 May - Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green: collision and fire kill 226, mostly troops, the UK's largest number of fatalities in a railway accident.
On 23 January 1975, there was a train accident on this embankment and a locomotive and carriages rolled down onto what were then fields just by point at which the traffic lights mark the exit from the supermarket.
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After his drawings of a railway accident at Blackburn station (1881) were published in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Railton went on to become one of the leading illustrators of his day.