Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

Anson Jack - Railway Safety and Standards Board:
If one is looking for blame, then one tends not get to the truth so easily.

Neil Oliver - Presenter:
Wartime pressure on the rail system, causing the passing loops to be used as sidings, left Meakin with little choice of what to do with the local train, but use the most risky option.

Adrian Quine - Railway Journalist:
That essentially is the cause of what led to the disaster at Quintinshill. It was too many trains piled into a small area with simply nowhere to put them, and huge pressure put on the signalmen to find a solution.