This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1915.
May events
- May 8 – Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connecting Ibach, Schwyz, and Brunnen Schifflände, Switzerland.
- May 22 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 226 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is blamed on negligence by the signalmen during a shift change at a busy junction.[4][5]
September births
- September 11 – Carl Fallberg, cartoonist who created Fiddletown & Copperopolis (died 1996).[8]
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