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Cloughjordan

Cloch Shiurdáin
Cloughjordan; Cloch Shiurdáin
	Limerick-Ballybrophy line passing under the R490 road at Cloughjordan station
General information
Location	Cloughjordan; Ireland
Coordinates	52°56′10″N 8°1′27″W / 52.93611°N 8.02417°W
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	1
Construction
Structure type	At-grade

Cloughjordan railway station serves the town and surrounding area of Cloughjordan, County Tipperary in the Midwest of Ireland. The station is located 1 km south west of the town centre on the Templemore Road.

Limerick to
Ballybrophy line

Legend

					Ballybrophy
					Dublin–Cork main line
					Roscrea
					Cloughjordan
					Nenagh
					Birdhill
					Castleconnell

					Dublin–Cork main line and to Waterford
					Limerick Colbert

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

The station is unstaffed and has a car park.^[2] A partnership between the local Tidy Towns group and Irish Rail has seen several improvements to the station and its surroundings.^[3]

Buildings edit

The station façade, signal cabin, platform, entrance piers and gates are listed as protected structures by Tipperary County Council (RPS Ref S457). The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage lists the station building and station masters house as being of architectural and social interest, with the five bay goods shed and road bridge which carries the R490 over the railway being listed as of architectural and technical interest. Until 1977, when the signal cabin closed, there was passing loop, where trains could cross at the station.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] ^[9]

Services edit

As of 2021, services were as follows:^[10]

Mon - Sat

2 trains to Limerick Colbert (2 trains Mon - Fri)
2 trains to Ballybrophy

Sundays

1 train to Limerick Colbert
1 train to Ballybrophy

Proposed developments edit

In November 2016 it was announced the line was very likely to close in 2018 as the demand for the service was low and CIE/IE wished to close it to save money.^[11] This was subsequently ruled out by Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann).^[12]

The North Tipperary Community Rail Partnership have long campaigned to improve the Limerick–Ballybrophy railway line service.^[13]

There is a phased continuous welded rail (CWR) track relay project being carried out on the line over the last few years.^[when?] The majority of the remaining jointed track, yet to be relayed, is between Cloughjordan and Roscrea stations. On 1 November 2021 the line closed for 5 weeks to allow up to 3.5 miles of old jointed track to be relaid with modern CWR.^[14]

Bench at the station

References edit

^ "Cloughjordan station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 7 September 2007.
^ "Cloughjordan Co. Tipperary".
^ "Cloughjordan Tidy Towns Group Page". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
^ Railway Lines of Coras Impair Eireann and Northern Ireland Railways by Oliver Doyle and Stephen Hirsch ISBN 0 906591 031
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Cloghjordan Railway Station, TOWNFIELDS, TIPPERARY NORTH".
^ "Cloghjordan Railway Station, TOWNFIELDS, TIPPERARY NORTH".
^ "Cloghjordan Railway Station, TOWNFIELDS, TIPPERARY NORTH".
^ "Cloghjordanpark, Tipperary North".
^ Rail, Irish. "Train Timetables Route Based". Irish Rail. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ "Rail Review 2016" (PDF). Ireland: National Transport Authority. August 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
^ "Rail closure claims rejected by Iarnród Éireann; Taoiseach rules out rail lines being axed". Irish Examiner. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
^ "Upgrade and Invest in the Limerick – Nenagh – Ballybrophy Railway Line".
^ "Upcoming Line Improvement Works".