Quintinshill Loops

Location type

Sidings

Names and dates

Quintinshill Signal Box (1880-1903)
Quintinshill Loops (1903-)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

There are refuge loops at Quintinshill on both the north and south bound lines. The location is just north of Gretna Junction.

A signal box opened here around 1880. There was a trailing crossover. The box was on the north side of the line.

The loops were installed in 1903 and the box replaced.

Quintinshill is the site of the Quintinshill Disaster. The accident was on the 22nd of May 1915. A memorial to the dead stands in Rosebank Cemetery.

The loops run between Blacksike Bridge (over line), to the west and Quintinshill Bridge (under line) to the east.

The box closed in 1973, in the run up to electrification. It was replaced by the Carlisle Signalling Centre.

The loops were named for a nearby farm to the south east which no longer exists.

Tags

Loops
09/12/2021




Chronology Dates

22/05/1915Caledonian Railway
Quintinshill disaster (at Quintinshill Loops), Britains worst train crash. 227 people killed when a troop train crashes into a local passenger train and an express trains collides with the wreckage.
17/06/2002Caledonian Railway
Southbound Mossend to Warrington timber train derails at north end of Quintinshill Loops.

News items

17/06/2002Derailment at Quintinshill [Railscot]

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian