Irish railway accidents

This sortable table is intended to list railway accidents in the Republic of Ireland, and before its formation accidents in the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connacht, plus the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. It is currently limited to accidents where three or more people were killed. It does not include acts of terror, nor accidents in Northern Ireland.

Irish railway accidents with three or more fatalities

The 'TRA link' column gives a link to the accident's page on The Railways Archive web site, though some may not yet be fully detailed.

	Date	Fatalities	Passenger fatalities	Injuries	Location	Description	TRA link	Company
1	01980-08-01 1 August 1980	18	16	75	Buttevant, County Cork	Express sent into sidings as points not interlocked		CIE
2	01853-10-05 5 October 1853	16	15	8	Straffan, County Kildare	Freight train hit rear of broken-down passenger train	[1]	GS&W
3	01983-08-21 21 August 1983	7	7	55	Cherryville Junction, County Kildare	Collision into rear of broken-down train^[1]		CIE
4=	01856-11-19 19 November 1856	6	0		Dunkettle, nr Cork	Passenger train misrouted into sidings & hit ballast train ^[2]^[3]	[2]	W&K
4=	01916-12-19 19 December 1916	6	0	10	Kiltimagh, County Mayo	Head on collision after ballast train passed signal at danger^[4]	[3]	GS&W
6	01975-12-31 31 December 1975	5	4	30	nr Gorey, County Wexford	Train derailed from bridge damaged by road vehicle^[1]		CIE
7	01925-01-30 30 January 1925	4	4	9	Owencarrow, County Donegal	Train derailed from viaduct in high winds	[4]	L&LS
8	01893-05-22 22 May 1893	3	0	13	Curraduff, County Kerry	Runaway train crashed over bridge into river	[5]	T&D

Notes

^ ^a ^b
^ "Frightful Railway Accident", The Times, 20 Nov 1856, p. 7.
^ "Dreadful Railway Accident", The Times, 21 Nov 1856, p. 10.
^ Comer, Michael (2006). The Kiltimagh Railway Disaster of 1916. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.

References

Mac Aongusa, Brian (2005). Broken Rails - Crashes and Sabotage on Irish Railways. Currach Press.
Vincent, Benjamin (1910). Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Useful Information. Ward Lock, 1146-1151.
Whitaker, Sir Cuthbert, ed. (1931), Whitaker's Almanac, J Whitaker & Sons, p. lii

Irish railway accidents