Thurles railway station

Thurles

Durlas
Thurles; Durlas
	An IE 22000 Class train at Thurles
Location	Railway Road, Thurles, County Tipperary, E41 H027; Ireland
Coordinates	52°40′35″N 7°49′19″W / 52.67639°N 7.82194°WCoordinates: 52°40′35″N 7°49′19″W / 52.67639°N 7.82194°W
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Original company	Great Southern and Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Southern and Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Southern Railways
Key dates
1848	Station opens
1880	line to Clonmel opened
1963	Clonmel passenger trains withdrawn
1967	line to Clonmel closed

Thurles railway station serves the town of Thurles in County Tipperary in Ireland. The station is on the Dublin–Cork Main line, and is situated 86.5 miles (139.2 km) from Dublin Heuston.^[1] It has two through platforms and one terminating platform.

An average of 17 trains each day between Dublin Heuston and Cork Kent serve Thurles station.^[2]

History[]

Mr Paddy Carroll, Thurles Train Station, 1961

The Great Southern and Western Railway opened the station on 13 March 1848.^[3]^[1]

On 5 August that year William Smith O'Brien was arrested on the station while waiting for a train after an unsuccessful insurrection in Ballingarry in South Tipperary.^[1] There is a plaque at the station commemorating the event.

In 1880 the Southern Railway of Ireland opened between Thurles and Clonmel on the Waterford and Limerick Railway (W&LR), making Thurles a junction.^[4] Following failure to pay a debt the Board of Works took over the line with operations handed to the W&LR until that was absorbed by the GS&WR in 1901.^[4] CIÉ withdrew passenger services from the Thurles – Clonmel line in 1963 and closed the line to freight in 1967.

Thurles station has three times won the Irish Rail Best Intercity Station prize.^{[citation needed]}

Bus Connections[]

Local Link[]

Local Link bus stops at Thurles Railway Station.

Timetable is 391 – (T42) Thurles to Limerick via Newport & UL ^[5]

Preceding station		Iarnród Éireann	Following station
Ballybrophy		InterCity Dublin–Cork Main Line	Limerick Junction
		InterCity	Limerick Junction
Templemore		InterCity	Limerick Colbert
	Disused railways
terminus		Great Southern and Western Railway Thurles–Clonmel line	Horse and Jockey

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Murray & McNeill (1976), p. 174.
^ "Dublin Heuston to Cork" (PDF). Iarnród Éireann. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
^ "Thurles station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 7 September 2007.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Murray & McNeill (1976), p. 128.
^ "391 – (T42) Thurles to Limerick via Newport & UL" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2020.

Bibliography[]

Murray, K. A.; McNeill, D. B. (1976). The Great Southern & Western Railway. Irish Record Railway Society. ISBN 0904078051. OCLC 3069424.

External links[]

"Thurles". Iarnród Éireann.

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[FOOTNOTEMurrayMcNeill1976174-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Murray & McNeill (1976), p. 174.

[2] "Dublin Heuston to Cork" (PDF). Iarnród Éireann. Retrieved 8 May 2018.

[3] "Thurles station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 7 September 2007.

[FOOTNOTEMurrayMcNeill1976128-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Murray & McNeill (1976), p. 128.

[5] "391 – (T42) Thurles to Limerick via Newport & UL" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2020.

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