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Craughwell railway station

Craughwell got its railway back. The village had a station from the middle of the nineteenth century on the Waterford, Limerick and Western line, lost it when passenger trains between Ennis and Athenry stopped in 1976, and gained a new one, a single platform with a car park close to the old site, when Iarnród Éireann reopened the line as the first phase of the Western Rail Corridor.

Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.

Craughwell railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later part of the Great Southern and Western Railway, on the l
Craughwell railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later part of the Great Southern and Western Railway, on the l
Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Using it

The station is unstaffed. Trains run between Galway and Limerick, calling at Athenry, Ardrahan and Gort on the Galway side and Ennis beyond; the Gort and Athenry station guides cover the connections. The model on this page pins the village and the Galway Blazers' country around it.

Questions people ask

Is there a train station in Craughwell?
Yes, an unstaffed single-platform station on the Galway to Limerick line, reopened under the Western Rail Corridor project.
When did the old Craughwell station close?
In 1976, when the Ennis to Athenry line lost its passenger service.

Written from Wikipedia, "Craughwell 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.