Thurles

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Iarnród Éireann
An IE 22000 Class train at Thurles
General information
LocationRailway Road, Thurles, County Tipperary, E41 H027
Ireland
Coordinates52°40′35″N 7°49′19″W / 52.67639°N 7.82194°W / 52.67639; -7.82194
Owned byIarnród Éireann
Operated byIarnród Éireann
Platforms3
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
History
Original companyGreat Southern and Western Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Southern and Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Southern Railways
Key dates
1848Station opens
1880line to Clonmel opened
1963Clonmel passenger trains withdrawn
1967line 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

Grave at Ardmore Cathedral of Declan Hurton (IRA), killed at Thurles station in December 1921.

The Great Southern and Western Railway opened the station on 13 March 1848.[3][1] The station was designed by Sancton Wood.[4]

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.[5] 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.[5]

On 9 December 1921, Old IRA members were being released during the Irish War of Independence. As internees reached Thurles railway station, a bomb was thrown at the train. Vol. Declan Hurton was injured and later died of his wounds.[6][7]

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]

Buses

A Local Link bus stops at Thurles Railway Station. Timetable is 391 – (T42) Thurles to Limerick via Newport & UL [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Wood, Sancton: Works". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  5. ^ a b Murray & McNeill (1976), p. 128.
  6. ^ O'Halpin, Eunan; Corrain, Daithi O. (20 October 2020). The Dead of the Irish Revolution. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300123821 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "December 1921". irishhistory1919-1923chronology.ie.
  8. ^ "391 – (T42) Thurles to Limerick via Newport & UL" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2020.

Bibliography

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Preceding station Iarnród Éireann Following station
Ballybrophy   InterCity
Dublin–Cork Main Line 		  Limerick Junction
[[Dublin Heuston
or
Portarlington railway station|Dublin Heuston
or
Portarlington]] 		  InterCity
Dublin–Tralee Main Line 		 
Templemore   InterCity
Dublin-Limerick Main Line 		  Limerick Colbert
  Disused railways  
terminus   Great Southern and Western Railway
Thurles–Clonmel line 		  Horse and Jockey
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