Athenry and Tuam Railway

Introduction

This railway runs from Athenry to Tuam.





Dates

  /  /1858Athenry and Tuam Railway
Incorporated.
  /  /1859Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway
Incorporated. (Or 1860?) Junction made at Athenry to allow running to the Athenry and Tuam Railway.
  /  /1860Athenry and Tuam Railway
Line opened from Athenry (Midland Great Western Railway) to Tuam.Worked by the MGWR until 1870.
  /  /1870Athenry and Tuam Railway
Midland Great Western Railway ceases to operate the line.
  /  /1893Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway Athenry and Tuam Railway
Absorbed by Waterford and Limerick Railway
  /  /1894Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway
Opened from Tuam (Athenry and Tuam Railway) to temporary terminus at Claremorris South near the Great Northern and Western Railway.
  /  /1947Athenry and Tuam Railway Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway Claremorris and Swinford Railway Collooney and Swinford Railway
Services reduced.
05/04/1976Limerick and Ennis Railway Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway Athenry and Tuam Railway Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway
Closed to regular passenger services. Sunday specials to Claremorris continue into the 1980s.
  /  /1991Athenry and Tuam Railway Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway
Route mothballed. Some track recovery.
  /  /1994Athenry and Tuam Railway Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway
Re-opened from Athenry to Claremorris.
  /  /1997Athenry and Tuam Railway Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway
Goods withdrawn with closure of factory near Ballina.
  /  /2015Athenry and Tuam Railway Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway
Iarnród Éireann repair works, limited to clearing the line of vegetation and replacing fencing.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Athenry to Tuam

A Limerick to Galway train has just come off the Limerick line at Athenry in July 2021. Here it will reverse and head west to Galway. Meanwhile, the ...
Douglas Blades 29/07/2021
Athenry station, looking east towards Athlone and Dublin, on 26th May 2019.
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Mark Poustie 26/05/2019
Level crossing and signal box at Athenry on the Dublin - Galway main line on a rainy day in 1988. ...
Bill Roberton //1988
Athenry station. The Sundays only 11.55 from Galway Ceannt to Limerick Junction has just arrived and is waiting to reverse onto the line to Ennis and ...
Mark Poustie 26/05/2019
The station at Ballyglunin, County Galway, seen in 1991. The former station, closed to regular passenger trains in 1976, became famous as a setting in ...
Bill Roberton //1991
A CIE class 181 at Tuam in 1988. ...
Ian Dinmore //1988
Approach to Tuam, County Galway in 1988. ...
Bill Roberton //1988
Looking over the station at Tuam, County Galway, from the level crossing on a wet day in 1988. ...
Bill Roberton //1988
The first train from Tuam to Claremorris in 3 years, shortly after setting out on its journey in 1988. Note the track. ...
Ian Dinmore //1988