Athenry railway station
Athenry is the junction of the west: the station where the Dublin to Galway line meets the line south to Ennis and Limerick, twenty minutes from Galway's Ceannt Station. It has been open since 1 August 1851, when the Midland Great Western Railway built it, and it is the reason a small town has a train every hour or so in both directions.
Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.
Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Athenry Castle on the 3D model; tap a pin for its page and directions.
What runs from Athenry
The Dublin to Galway intercity service calls here, and so do the Galway to Limerick and Galway to Athenry commuter trains, which makes Athenry the easiest place in the county to catch a train that is not Galway itself. For Westport and Ballina you travel east to Athlone and change. The line north to Tuam and Claremorris closed to passengers decades ago; its reopening is the unfinished business of the Western Rail Corridor.
The line that nearly went
In November 2016 it was announced that the Ennis to Athenry line, reopened under the Western Rail Corridor, might close again by 2018 to save money, which would have left Athenry a stop on the Dublin line and nothing more. It did not happen: the line was still open in 2024, and the Limerick trains still leave from Athenry.
From the platform to the town
The station sits on the edge of the medieval town; the castle, the priory and the square are a few minutes' walk. The model on this page pins the streets between them, and the Getting here page has the bus stops and car parks.
Questions people ask
Which trains stop at Athenry?
How far is Athenry station from Galway?
When did Athenry station open?
Written from Wikipedia, "Athenry railway station" (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-09-19, and from the OpenStreetMap places on the model. Nothing has been added from memory; follow the source for its footnotes.