Clifden railway station

Clifden railway station
Clifden station c. 1910
Location	County Galway Ireland
Coordinates	53°29′19″N 10°01′04″W / 53.4885°N 10.0177°W / 53.4885; -10.0177Coordinates: 53°29′19″N 10°01′04″W / 53.4885°N 10.0177°W / 53.4885; -10.0177
Platforms	1
History
Original company	Midland Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Southern Railways
Key dates
1895	Station opens
1935	Station closes
Route map Legend Clifden Ballynahinch Recess Hotel Platform Maam Cross Oughterard Ross Moycullen R. Corrib Prospect Hill Galway Lough Atalia Bridge To Athenry Athlone & Dublin

Clifden railway station was the terminus on the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) Clifden branch line from Galway.

History[]

The station was the terminus on the Clifden branch line from Galway some 49+1⁄4 miles (79.3 km) distant.^[1] An inspection train of directors reached the station on 3 May 1895, with the public opening on 1 July 1895.^[2]

When the last train pulled out of Clifden in 1935 with the closure of the railway it left with whistle blowing and detonators set at the level crossing.^[3] The station building has since being renovated and now a theatre.^{[citation needed]} The station master's house is now a Museum.^{[citation needed]}

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Footnotes[]

Sources[]

• Shepherd, W. Ernest (1994). The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland: An Illustrated History. Leicester: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-008-7. OCLC 60006991.
• Villiers-Tuthill, Kathleen (1995). "The Connemara Railway 1895-1935". History Ireland. Vol. 4 no. 3. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.

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