Cloughjordan railway station
{{short description |Station in County Tipperary, Ireland}}
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{{Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line}}
Cloughjordan railway station serves the town and surrounding area of Cloughjordan, County Tipperary in the Midwest of Ireland. The station is located 1 km southwest of the town centre on the Templemore Road.
Cloughjordan railway station opened to the public on 5 October 1863{{cite web | title=Cloughjordan station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | accessdate=7 September 2007}} and is on the Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line, located between Nenagh railway station and Roscrea railway station. Passengers can connect at Ballybrophy to trains heading northeast to Dublin or southwest to Cork or Tralee.
The station is unstaffed and has a car park.{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishrail.ie/Cloughjordan|title = Cloughjordan Co. Tipperary}} A partnership between the local Tidy Towns group and Irish Rail has seen several improvements to the station and its surroundings.{{cite web |url=http://www.cloughjordan.ie/tidytowns/index.htm |title=Cloughjordan Tidy Towns Group Page |accessdate=2012-02-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120802153718/http://www.cloughjordan.ie/tidytowns/index.htm |archivedate=2012-08-02 }}
Buildings
The station façade, signal cabin, platform, entrance piers and gates are listed as protected structures by Tipperary County Council (RPS Ref S457). The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage lists the station building and station masters house as being of architectural and social interest, while the five bay goods shed and road bridge which carries the R490 over the railway being listed as of architectural and technical interest. Up until 1977, when the signal cabin closed, there was passing loop, where trains could cross at the station.Railway Lines of Coras Impair Eireann and Northern Ireland Railways by Oliver Doyle and Stephen Hirsch ISBN 0 906591 031{{cite web|url=http://www.tipperarycoco.ie/sites/default/files/Publications/NTCC%20Register%20of%20Protected%20Structures_0.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130023543/http://www.tipperarycoco.ie/sites/default/files/Publications/NTCC%20Register%20of%20Protected%20Structures_0.pdf |archivedate=2015-01-30 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22401603|title = Cloghjordan Railway Station, TOWNFIELDS, TIPPERARY NORTH}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22401604|title = Cloghjordan Railway Station, TOWNFIELDS, TIPPERARY NORTH}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22401602|title = Cloghjordan Railway Station, TOWNFIELDS, TIPPERARY NORTH}}
Services
As of 2021, services were as follows:{{Cite web|last=Rail|first=Irish|title=Train Timetables Route Based|url=https://www.irishrail.ie/|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Irish Rail|language=en}}
Mon - Sat
- 2 trains to Limerick Colbert (2 trains Mon - Fri)
- 2 trains to Ballybrophy
Sundays
- 1 train to Limerick Colbert
- 1 train to Ballybrophy
Proposed developments
In November 2016 it was announced the line was very likely to close in 2018 due to low demand, and CIE/IE wished to close it to save money.{{cite web | url=https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/151116_2016_Rail_Review_Report_Complete_Online.pdf | title=Rail Review 2016 | publisher=National Transport Authority | location=Ireland | date=August 2016 | accessdate=21 December 2020 }} This was subsequently ruled out by Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann).{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20466784.html|title=Rail closure claims rejected by Iarnród Éireann; Taoiseach rules out rail lines being axed|newspaper=Irish Examiner|date=7 February 2018|accessdate=12 April 2021}}
The North Tipperary Community Rail Partnership have long campaigned to improve the Limerick–Ballybrophy railway line service.{{Cite web|url=https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/upgrade-and-invest-in-the-limerick-nenagh-ballybrophy-railway-line?source=twitter-share-button&share=f89b5368-73a9-4ca0-b510-7320b7cf7e03|title=Upgrade and Invest in the Limerick – Nenagh – Ballybrophy Railway Line}}
There is a phased continuous welded rail (CWR) track relay project being carried out on the line over the last few years.{{when|date=January 2022}} The majority of the remaining jointed track, yet to be relayed, is between Cloughjordan and Roscrea stations.
On 1 November 2021 the line closed for 5 weeks to allow up to 3.5 miles of old jointed track to be relaid with modern CWR.{{cite web | url=https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/news/irishrail-engineering-works | title=Upcoming Line Improvement Works }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.irishrail.ie/Cloughjordan Irish Rail Cloughjordan Station Website]
- [http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20C/Cloughjordan/IrishRailwayStations.html Cloughjordan Station on Eire Trains]
- [http://www.southtipperaryrailandbus.com/ballybrophy-roscrea-nenagh-limerick-line.html Ballybrophy-Roscrea-Nenagh-Limerick line]
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Category:Iarnród Éireann stations in County Tipperary
Category:Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1863