Cloughjordan railway station


Cloughjordan railway station serves the town of Cloughjordan, County Tipperary in Ireland. The station is located 1 km south west of the town centre on the Templemore Road.
It opened on 5 October 1863.
It is connected to the Irish railway network on the Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line (where it joins the main Dublin-Cork railway line. The station is unstaffed and has a car park. A partnership between the local Tidy Towns group and Irish Rail has seen several improvements to the station and its surroundings.

Buildings

The station façade, platform, entrance piers and gates are listed as protected structures by Tipperary County Council. 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.

Closure proposed

A January 2012 national newspaper article suggested that Iarnród Éireann was expected to seek permission from the National Transport Authority to close the line. An enhanced timetable was in force during 2012 however the service was again reduced from February 2013. In November 2016 it was announced the line was very likely to close in 2018 as the demand for the service is very low and CIÉ/IÉ wish to close it to save money.