Limerick Colbert
Location type
Station
Names and dates
Limerick (1848-1966)
Limerick Colbert (1966-)
Opened on the Limerick and Foynes Railway.
Opened on the Waterford and Limerick Railway.
Dates
| / /1848 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Opened from Limerick to Tipperary. Contractor William Dargan. |
| / /1848 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Doubled from Limerick to Pallas. |
| / /1856 | Limerick and Foynes Railway Opened from Limerick to Rathkeale [1st] (contractor William Dargan). |
| /10/1856 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Building of a permanent Limerick station approved. |
| /09/1858 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Board of Trade inspects the new Limerick station (although it had been in use for some time). |
| / /1860 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Limerick market tramway authorised. |
| / /1864 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Limerick market tramway opened. |
| / /1901 | Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway Absorbed by Great Southern and Western Railway. Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway granted running powers from Waterford to Limerick. Midland Great Western Railway (who had opposed the merger) granted running powers from Athenry to Limerick, used for a passenger train, goods and cattle trains until 1911. |
| / /1901 | Limerick and Castleconnell Railway Trains cease working from Limerick and commence from Birdhill. |
| / /1911 | Waterford and Limerick Railway The Midland Great Western Railway ceases stabling two engines at Limerick for its traffic using running powers to and from Athenry. |
| / /1931 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Junction at Killonan taken out, lines running as two single track railways to Limerick. |
| / /1931 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Factory portion of the Limerick market tramway closed. |
| / /1940 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Limerick market tramway closed except for siding serving the bus depot. |
| / /1950 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Limerick market tramway completely closed. |
| 15/06/1963 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Closure of Limerick ticket platform 'Limerick Check', last ticket platform in the British Isles, used for arrivals from Ennis. |
| 10/04/1966 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Limerick renamed Limerick Colbert to commemoration Cornelius Colbert, one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. |
| / /1975 | Waterford and Limerick Railway Curve into Limerick station from Foynes and Tralee line closed. |
| 04/08/1984 | Limerick and Ennis Railway Re-opened for Thursday only services between Limerick and Ennis. |
| 12/04/1988 | Limerick and Ennis Railway Becomes a two days a week service between Limerick and Ennis. |
| 16/05/1994 | Limerick and Ennis Railway Re-opens to passengers between Limerick and Ennis, six days a week. |
| 29/03/2010 | Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway Official re-opened between Ennis and Athenry to carry a Limerick - Galway Ceannt service. |
| 30/03/2010 | Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway Public re-opening between Ennis and Athenry to carry a Limerick - Galway Ceannt service. |
| 31/08/2020 | Limerick and Castleconnell Railway
Roscrea and Parsontown Junction Railway Service restarted from Limerick to Ballybrophy via Nenagh having been suspended due to the Covid-19 crisis. |
