Muine Bheag halt

Muine Bheag
Bagenalstown
Muine Bheag halt Photo: Liam Murphy [1]
Location
Place	Muine Bheag
Local authority	County Carlow
Coordinates	52°41′57″N 6°57′09″W / 52.699098°N 6.952521°W / 52.699098; -06.952521Coordinates: 52°41′57″N 6°57′09″W / 52.699098°N 6.952521°W / 52.699098; -06.952521
Operations
Station code	47
Platforms in use	2
History
24 July 1848	Station opens as Bagnalstown
By April 1910	Station renamed Bagenalstown
30 March 1963	Station closed
1988	Station reopened and renamed Muine Bheag
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Muine Bheag halt serves the town of Muine Bheag in County Carlow The station opened on 24 July 1848 as Bagenalstown. It was closed for goods traffic on 6 September 1976,^[1] but re-opened, re-named, in 1988. The station is staffed; the main platform is fully accessible but the far-side platform (used only when two trains pass in the station) is accessible only by stairs and a footbridge.

History

Opened by the Great Southern and Western Railway, the station was amalgamated into the Great Southern Railways. The line was then nationalised, passing to the Coras Iompair Éireann with the Transport Act 1944 which took effect from 1 January 1945.

Although the station closed the line remained open and passed on to the Iarnród Éireann in 1986.

Preceding station	Iarnród Éireann			Following station
Carlow		Intercity Dublin-Waterford		Kilkenny MacDonagh
	Historical railways
Milford		Great Southern and Western Railway Dublin-Waterford		Gowran

References

1. ^ "Bagenalstown station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-08-30. 

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• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.