Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint

Attack on the Cloghoge checkpoint
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
Entrance to a British Army checkpoint near Newry, late 1980s
Date 1 May 1992 Location North of Cloghoge (near Newry), County Armagh, Northern Ireland 54°9′0″N 6°20′39.90″W / 54.15000°N 6.3444167°W / 54.15000; -6.3444167 Result IRA victory British checkpoint complex destroyed
Belligerents
Provisional IRA	British Army
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Lt. Andrew Rawding[1]
Strength
2 active service units 1 railway bomb	24 soldiers in complex 2 patrols
Casualties and losses
None	1 killed 23 wounded
class=notpageimage| Location within Northern Ireland

The attack on Cloghoge checkpoint was an unconventional railway bomb attack carried out on 1 May 1992 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint, manned at the time by members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.^[2] The IRA's South Armagh Brigade fitted a van with train wheels that allowed it to move along a railway line. A large bomb was placed inside the van, which was then driven along the railway line to the target. The explosion killed one British soldier and injured 23 others. The complex, just north of the village of Cloghoge in County Armagh, on the southern outskirts of Newry, was utterly destroyed.