A Fatal Miscommunication: The Buttevant Rail Disaster | Fascinating Horror

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This video tells the story of Ireland's worst rail disaster: the Buttevant rail crash of 1980...

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CHAPTERS: 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 01:00 - Background
► 01:29 - The Buttevant Rail Crash
► 06:44 - Aftermath and Investigation

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► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES: 📑
► "How the Buttevant rail disaster changed lives forever" by Ray Ryan, published by The Irish Examiner, July 2021. Link: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-40345610.html
Official Accident Report, published by the Minister for Transport, April 1981. Available via: https://www.iaemo.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/accident_buttevant.pdf
► "Families recall heroism of rail driver who prevented second crash during Buttevant rail disaster" by Pádraig Hoare, published by The Irish Examiner, August 2021. Link: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40350926.html
► "The rural town that can never forget Irish rails' darkest day" by Graham Clifford, published by The Irish Independent, August 2015. Link: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-rural-town-that-can-never-forget-irish-rails-darkest-day/31412802.html
► "Retired firefighter Billy recalls Buttevant rail disaster 40 years on" by Bill Browne, published by The Irish Independent, August 2020. Link: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/retired-firefighter-billy-recalls-buttevant-rail-disaster-40-years-on/39409889.html
► "Rail Disaster In Cork" published by RTE. Link: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0801/718273-buttevant-train-crash/

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