Nenagh railway station

Nenagh
An tAonach
Location
Place	Nenagh
Local authority	Nenagh Town Council
Operations
Platforms in use	1
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Limerick to Ballybrophy Line
Legend Ballybrophy Dublin-Cork Main Line Roscrea Cloughjordan Nenagh Birdhill Castleconnell Dublin-Cork Main Line Limerick Colbert

2721 Arrives from Limerick

Nenagh railway station serves the town of Nenagh in North Tipperary, Ireland.

The station opened on 5 October 1863^[1] and is on the Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line. Passengers can connect at Ballybrophy to trains heading northeast to Dublin or southwest to Cork or Tralee.

The buildings consist of a two storey station house with a platform canopy supported on cast iron columns,^[2] a goods shed and a disused cast iron footbridge.

The railway line is lightly used due to low passenger numbers. Lack of upkeep means the line is restricted to speeds of 40 kilometres per hour (25 miles per hour) and the existing trains are poorly timetabled for commuters. A committee (the Nenagh Rail Partnership) working in conjunction with Irish Railway News, had a meeting with Iarnród Éireann on September 1, 2005 to present the results of a traffic study funded by Nenagh Town Council and North Tipperary County Council, and to seek a morning and evening service between Nenagh and Limerick which would increase commuter traffic. Iarnród Éireann agreed to delay an afternoon service from the December 2005 timetable.

In October 2007, following a further meeting between the Nenagh Rail partnership, Irish Railway News and Irish Rail it was announced that a new commuter service would begin on 1 September 2008, to comprise an early morning service into Limerick and an early evening service out of Limerick.^[3]

While the current twice-a-day service on the Ballybrophy/Limerick line is poor, Nenagh is only 37 km (23 mi) from Thurles, which is on the main Dublin/Cork line, and which has c. 18 trains daily in each direction, including non-stop services to and from Dublin.

Birdhill to Heuston

On the 4th September 2011 a GAA Special service departed from Birdhill at 09:00 Hours serving Birdhill, Nenagh and Roscrea with no change at Ballybrophy Direct to Dublin. Iarnród Éireann used a ICR IE 22000 Class Intercity train which was the first time since the early 90s a train to Dublin ran along the line and the first time a modern train served the line.^[4]

Preceding station	Iarnród Éireann			Following station
Birdhill		Commuter Limerick-Nenagh		Terminus
		Commuter Limerick-Ballybrophy		Cloughjordan

References

1. ^ "Nenagh station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved September 7, 2007. 
2. ^ "Nenagh Railway Station, Thurles Road, Nenagh, Tipperary North". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN&regno=22305105. 
3. ^ Nenagh Guardian
4. ^ GAA All Ireland Hurling Final Tipperary-v-Kilkenny - 4th September 2011