Fatal train carrying some of Ireland’s wealthiest people burned ‘as wildly as the fires of Hell’

It’s 150 years since 33 people lost their lives when the Irish Mail, carrying some of Ireland’s wealthiest people, crashed into runaway trucks filled with paraffin, writes Robert Hume

Thirty-three passengers were burned to death when the Irish Mail, one of the fastest and most famous trains of the day, smashed into runaway goods trucks along a lonely stretch of coast in North Wales on August 20, 1868.