Armagh Railway Disaster - your responses...

Marion E. May nee McArdle - July '08
How interesting and I wonder if my grandfather was involved or any of my relatives. His name was PHILIP ( or RICHARD) MCARDLE from CROSSMAGLEN ARMAGH and he was a railway engineer. At some point he moved to DUNDALK married and subsequently had 4 children, the eldest of which was my father DENIS RICHARD b.1917.

I would be grateful for any information as I'm finding records sparse and difficult to find.

Jim Steel - Apr '07
Amazing, another great grandchild of Samuel Steel found the site. James Steel & family of St.Catharines will be going to Armagh in 2009 for the 125th. Perhaps another branch can join in.

Pat Smith can contact us at meandspot at cogeco dot ca

Patricia Byers (Hobart, Tasmania) - Feb '07
My grandmother Martha Somerville was on the train.

Gail Paton - May '06
I am looking to obtain a list of the victims of the tragedy. I have discovered that my great aunt was one of the victims. Her name was Margaret Gibson. I do not know what age she was when she died.

Jonathan Dodds - April '06
Is there not a memorial in the city to remember the dead and if not why? a lot of people were killed and should be remembered.

Pat Smith (USA) - April '06
James Steel, above, and I must be cousins, as Samuel Steel was also my great grandfather. My grandfather, Harry, was one of the two youngest children in the family who had stayed home with their mother that day. I had heard about this tragic accident as part of family history, and it has been great to be able to use the web to find out more about it.

Ms O Lappin - March '06
I live beside where the crash took place, I often look over the lines and think about all those poor adults and children who died as a result of greed. My prayers go out to them all.

James Steel (St. Catharines, Canada) - Feb '06
My great grandfather, Samuel Steel, along with his two daughter's, Sarah and Ethel and niece Hetty Wolfe died in the wreck. My grandfather, Robert James and his brother Samuel Maxwell survived having been in one of the coaches which were towed up the incline.

John - April '04
My father used to tell me about this as his dad told him.

My dad was born in Armagh in 1894, burried now in Kildarton churchyard.

Engine No.86 which stalled on the hill, leading to the disaster.

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