The Armagh rail disaster Catastrophe happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh , Ulster , Ireland , when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate Motion a steep incline ; the steam locomotive was unable to complete Process_end the climb and the train stalled Temporary_stay .

A spur of the railroad , whose name was changed on April 18 , 1853 , to the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company , was formally opened Openness Monday , July 2 , 1855 , with an excursion from Cohoquinoque station , at Front and Willow Streets in Philadelphia , to Wissahickon ( present-day Ambler ) , an outlying area to the northwest .

The excursion Traveling began Process_start in New Orleans in June .