Kilkenny

Location type

Station


Name and dates

Kilkenny (1848-)

Opened on the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway.

Opened on the Irish South Eastern Railway.

Opened on the Kilkenny Junction Railway.





Dates

12/05/1848Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Kilkenny to Thomastown opened.
12/11/1850Irish South Eastern Railway
Extended from Bagenalstown to Kilkenny, the Wicklow and Kilkenny Railway laying an additional track alongside its route from Lavistown to Kilkenny.
01/03/1865Kilkenny Junction Railway
Opened from Kilkenny to Abbeyleix.
01/09/1866Kilkenny Junction Railway
Due to little traffic, Kilkenny to Abbeyleix temporarily closed while line is completed.
01/05/1867Kilkenny Junction Railway
Kilkenny to Abbeyleix re-opened. Abbeyleix to Maryborough opened from Kilkenny to Maryborough on the Great Southern and Western Railway, where a connection is not made but a line runs into a bay platform.
  /  /1919Castlecomer Branch
Connecting with the former Kilkenny Junction Railway, Kilkenny (Castlecomer Junction) to Castlecomer opened. Built by British Government.
01/01/1963Kilkenny Junction Railway
Kilkenny to Abbeyleix to Maryborough closed.
09/06/1979Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Great Southern and Western Railway
The two parallel lines from Lavistown into Kilkenny become one when Lavistown Junction is laid in.