Buttevant Rail Disaster
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The Buttevant Rail Disaster was a train crash that occurred on 1 August 1980 at Buttevant Railway Station, County Cork, in Ireland, 220 kilometres (137 mi) from Dublin on the main line to Cork. More than 70 people were injured, and 18 died, in one of Ireland's worst rail disasters.
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| N 52.2331 ° | E -8.6669 ° |
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P51 YD77 (Buttevant ED)
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