Irish Railway Accidents With One or More Train Occupant 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01852-12-022 December 1852 | 1 | 0 | ? | Bansha, County Tipperary | Passenger train derailed on poor track | W&L | |
| 01853-10-055 October 1853 | 16 | 15 | 8 | Straffan, County Kildare | Freight train hit rear of broken-down passenger train | GS&W | |
| 01853-12-3131 December 1853 | 2 | 0 | 6 | Between Clonmel and Kilsheelan, County Tipperary | Derailment of passenger train | W&L | |
| 01855-10-2020 October 1855 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Near Mallow, County Cork | Freight train broke into three portions; two collided, killing pig drover travelling as a passenger | GS&W | |
| 01856-11-1919 November 1856 | 5 | 0 | ? | Dunkitt, County Kilkenny | Passenger train misrouted into sidings & hit ballast train | W&K | |
| 01857-10-099 October 1857 | 1 | 0 | ? | Carrigans, County Donegal | Mail train hit cow and derailed | L&E | |
| 01864-10-2929 October 1864 | 2 | 2 | 34 | Ballinasloe, County Galway | Passenger train derailed due to excess speed on poor track | MGW | |
| 01867-08-099 August 1867 | 2 | 1 | ? | Bray Head, County Wicklow | Sudden subsidence resulted in collapse at the Brandy Hole Viaduct; passenger train derailed | DWW | |
| 01874-09-2626 September 1874 | 1 | 1 | 28 | Dundalk, County Louth | Collision on flat crossing | DBJ, INW | |
| 01875-08-2121 August 1875 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Longpavement, County Limerick | Tyre of locomotive wheel broke, causing derailment of mixed train | W&L | |
| 01875-10-3030 October 1875 | 1 | 1 | 7 | Castlebar, County Mayo | Empty cattle train struck rear of mixed train | MGW | |
| 01877-07-044 July 1877 | 1 | 1 | 7 | Dalkey, County Dublin | Passenger train derailed on unlocked facing points | DWW | |
| 01878-02-2727 February 1878 | 1 | 1 | 16 | Glenageary, County Dublin | Wagons broke away from freight train and struck passenger train | DWW | |
| 01878-09-088 September 1878 | 5 | 3 | 70 | Curraheen, near Ballincollig, County Cork | Derailment of passenger train on poor track | C&MD | |
| 01879-11-1212 November 1879 | 1 | 0 | ? | Ballyhaise (then called Belturbet Junction), County Cavan | Mixed and cattle trains collided | GN | |
| 01887-07-077 July 1887 | 1 | 0 | 3 | Bantry, County Cork | Runaway train struck buffers | CBSC | |
| 01893-05-2222 May 1893 | 3 | 0 | 13 | Curraduff, County Kerry | Runaway train crashed over bridge into river | T&D | |
| 01895-08-066 August 1895 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Between Avoca and Rathdrum, County Wicklow | Head-on collision of freight train and empty passenger train | DWW | |
| 01898-11-2424 November 1898 | 1 | 1 | ? | Lispole, County Kerry | Part of passenger train overturned by wind | T&D | |
| 01901-04-2424 April 1901 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Tralee, County Kerry | Runaway freight train crashed through buffers | GS&W | |
| 01903-04-1111 April 1903 | 1 | 1 | 15 | Between Ballymoe, County Galway, and Castlerea, County Roscommon | Passenger train struck axle from platelayer's trolley and derailed | MGW | |
| 01907-09-088 September 1907 | 1 | 0 | 7 | Kilrane, near Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford | Locomotive collided with passenger train | GS&W | |
| 01908-03-1313 March 1908 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Maynooth, County Kildare | Mail train struck wagon standing foul of line | MGW | |
| 01910-01-1919 January 1910 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Felthouse Junction, County Wexford | Derailment of freight train | GS&W | |
| 01910-08-066 August 1910 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Dundalk, County Louth | Passenger train collided with wagons | GN | |
| 01912-08-055 August 1912 | 1 | 1 | 96 | Lombardstown, County Cork | Passenger train derailed; excess speed on poor track | GS&W | |
| 01914-01-088 January 1914 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Birdhill, County Tipperary | Locomotive of mixed train derailed and overturned | GS&W | |
| 01915-01-2828 January 1915 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Kinsale, County Cork | Runaway freight train collided with stationary mixed train | CBSC | |
| 01916-12-1919 December 1916 | 6 | 0 | 10 | Kiltimagh, County Mayo | Head on collision after ballast train passed signal at danger | GS&W | |
| 01921-08-055 August 1921 | 1 | 0 | 5 | Enniscorthy Tunnel, County Wexford | Collision between locomotive and permanent way trolley | D&SE | |
| 01925-01-3030 January 1925 | 4 | 4 | 9 | Owencarrow, County Donegal | Owencarrow Viaduct Disaster—part of passenger train overturned by wind while crossing viaduct | L&LS | |
| 01941-11-1111 November 1941 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Farranfore, County Kerry | Bridge washed away by flood; freight train derailed | GS | |
| 01944-12-2020 December 1944 | 1 | 0 | ? | Straboe, near Portlaoise, County Laois | Mail train passed signal at danger and hit failed cattle train | GS | |
| 01949-08-2929 August 1949 | 3 | 2 | ? | Donegal, County Donegal | Passenger train left station without train staff and collided head-on with freight train | CDRJC | |
| 01955-12-2121 December 1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Cahir, County Tipperary | Runaway freight train derailed and fell through bridge | CIE | |
| 01957-12-2323 December 1957 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Dundrum, County Dublin | Passenger train, delayed by cow on line, was struck from behind by second passenger train mistakenly signalled into section | CIE | |
| 01974-10-2121 October 1974 | 2 | 2 | 29 | Gormanston, County Meath | Runaway empty passenger train collided with second empty train, which struck passenger train | CIE | |
| 01975-12-3131 December 1975 | 5 | 4 | 30 | nr Gorey, County Wexford | Train derailed from bridge damaged by road vehicle | CIE | |
| 01980-08-011 August 1980 | 18 | 16 | 75 | Buttevant, County Cork | Express sent into sidings as points not interlocked | CIE | |
| 01983-08-2121 August 1983 | 7 | 7 | 55 | Cherryville Junction, County Kildare | Collision into rear of broken-down train | CIE | |
| 01991-09-3030 September 1991 | 1 | 1 | ? | Ballycumber, County Offaly | Derailment of passenger train | IÉ |
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