Quintinshill Loops
Location type
SidingsNames 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
Loops09/12/2021
| Nearby stations Gretna Green [1st] Gretna Green Gretna [CR] Gretna [NBR] Gretna Township Rigg Kirkpatrick Longtown Floriston Scotch Dyke Lyneside Eastriggs Wylies Halt Rockcliffe Kirtlebridge | Gretna Junction Sark Viaduct Peat Works (ex of ng railway) Gretna Border Union Junction Gretna Junction [NBR] HM Factory Gretna Ether Section Kirkpatrick Railway Cottages Gretna Site No 4 Gretna MOD Junction Kirtle Water Viaduct Mossband Junction Admiralty Sidings Junction Bush-on-Esk West Junction Bush-on-Esk East Junction Tourist/other DLO Smalmstown |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 22/05/1915 | Caledonian 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. |
| 17/06/2002 | Caledonian Railway Southbound Mossend to Warrington timber train derails at north end of Quintinshill Loops. |
News items
| 17/06/2002 | Derailment at Quintinshill [Railscot] |
