Attymon railway station serves the townland of Attymon in
County GalwayCounty Galway is one of the traditional Counties of Ireland. It is located in the province of Connacht. It was named after the city of Galway...
. It is the smallest station on the Dublin-Galway line consisting of a single platform with no signalling system or waiting room. The building at the station is boarded up and used as a store for line maintenance crew. The station used to link the Dublin-Galway line with a branch line to
LoughreaLoughrea is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The town lies north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains. Olive Loughnane lives here....
but this has been removed, the line having closed in 1975.
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Attymon railway station serves the townland of Attymon in
County GalwayCounty Galway is one of the traditional Counties of Ireland. It is located in the province of Connacht. It was named after the city of Galway...
. It is the smallest station on the Dublin-Galway line consisting of a single platform with no signalling system or waiting room. The building at the station is boarded up and used as a store for line maintenance crew. The station used to link the Dublin-Galway line with a branch line to
LoughreaLoughrea is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The town lies north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains. Olive Loughnane lives here....
but this has been removed, the line having closed in 1975. WESTRAIL had hoped to reopen the line as a tourist line, but failed to do so.
Attymon Junction station opened on 1 December 1890.
See also
- List of towns and villages in Ireland
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