Armagh District Council recently published a commemorative book to mark the centenary of one of the worst disasters in Irish, or British, railway history.

Report shows photograph of train wreckage taken on Wednesday 12 June 1889.

Nineteenth-century photograph of Warrenpoint, the train's destination.

Excursion ticket for doomed train, which was mainly carrying children to Warrenpoint seaside.

Methodist church in Armagh. The Methodist church organised the excursion in 1889.

Photograph of train engine used on the day of the incident.

Flower arrangement in the Methodist church to commemorate the trip.

Interview with Dr Hamilton Skillen, Methodist clergyman, on the Royal Irish Fusilier Band which in 1889 marched out to the station to meet the incoming children.

Painting of Sergeant Major Lynn, an officer in that regiment.

Hill three miles from Armagh where the train came to a halt and rolled back down the line to collide with another train.

Photographs of the aftermath of the accident which killed 88 people and injured 400.

Interview with Damian Woods, author of ‘The Fateful Day’, the book on the incident.

Gravestones of victims of the tragedy.

Interview with Roger Weatherup, Armagh County Museum Curator, on how the accident led to compulsory safety standards being implemented.

The reporter is Michael Fisher.

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