Cloughjordan railway station serves the town and surrounding area of

Cloughjordan Cloughjordan, officially Cloghjordan ( , ), is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is in the barony of Ormond Lower, and it is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. The town is situated in the north-western part of T ...

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in the Midwest of

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. The station is located 1 km south west of the town centre on the Templemore Road. Cloughjordan railway station opened to the public on 5 October 1863 and is on the Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line, located between

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and

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. Passengers can connect at Ballybrophy to trains heading northeast to

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or southwest to Cork or

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. The station is unstaffed and has a car park. A partnership between the local Tidy Towns group and

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has seen several improvements to the station and its surroundings.

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 The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) maintains a central database of the architectural heritage of the Republic of Ireland covering the period since 1700 in complement to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, which focuses on ar ...

lists the station building and station masters house as being of architectural and social interest, with the five bay

goods shed A goods shed is a railway building designed for storing goods before or after carriage in a train. A typical goods shed will have a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they were built ...

and road bridge which carries the R490 over the railway being listed as of architectural and technical interest. Until 1977, when the signal cabin closed, there was passing loop, where trains could cross at the station.

Services

As of 2021, services were as follows: 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 as the demand for the service was low and CIE/IE wished to close it to save money. This was subsequently ruled out by Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann). The North Tipperary Community Rail Partnership have long campaigned to improve the

Limerick–Ballybrophy railway line The Limerick–Ballybrophy line is a railway line connecting the city of Limerick with in County Laois. The line diverges from the Limerick to Limerick Junction railway line at Killonan Junction and continues in a north east direction with fi ...

service. There is a phased

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(CWR) track relay project being carried out on the line over the last few years. The majority of the remaining jointed track, yet to be relayed, is between Cloughjordan and

Roscrea Roscrea () is a market town in County Tipperary, Ireland, which in 2016 had a population of 5,446. Roscrea is one of the oldest towns in Ireland, having developed around the 7th century monastery of Saint Crónán of Roscrea, parts of which rem ...

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. CloughjordonRailwayStationFakeDoors

References

External links

Irish Rail Cloughjordan Station Website

{{s-end Railway stations opened in 1863 Iarnród Éireann stations in County Tipperary Cloughjordan

Buildings

Services

Proposed developments

See also

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