A railway vehicle having an impact energy absorbing device capable of avoiding coincidence between starts of deformation of the impact energy absorbing device in the event of collision to reduce the pressure collapse peak load and, hence, loads on the vehicle body, passengers and so on in the case of application to a transportation apparatus such as a train in particular. The impact energy absorbing device has a plurality of energy absorbing members 11 and 12 which pressure-collapse in the event of collision to absorb impact energy, and which are mounted in a predetermined region in the longitudinal direction of the body of a vehicle while being spaced apart in the car body width direction. Front ends of the energy absorbing members 11 and 12 in the collision direction are shifted to a plurality of positions (jutted out by ΔL). In this impact energy absorbing device, the energy absorbing members 11 and the like are brought into collision with time differences to shift the energy absorbing member collapse times to set time differences between the occurrences of pressure-collapse initial peaks in the energy absorbing members, thereby reducing the peak load as a whole. Full buckling of the energy absorbing members can be prevented by guiding outer portions of the energy absorbing members with a slide guide or disposing buckling preventing members 16 and 17 in spaces 14 and 15 in the energy absorbing members.