Attymon halt

Attymon Stáisiún Áth Tíomáin
Location	Attymon Republic of Ireland
Coordinates	53°11′49″N 8°34′01″W / 53.1969°N 8.5669°WCoordinates: 53°11′49″N 8°34′01″W / 53.1969°N 8.5669°W
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	1
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Opened	1890
Services
Preceding station   Iarnród Éireann   Following station Woodlawn   Intercity Dublin-Galway   Athenry Disused railways Terminus   Midland Great Western Railway Attymon-Loughrea   Dunsandle

Dublin–Galway/Westport railway line
Legend
Phoenix Park Tunnel to Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Dublin Connolly & The Point Dublin Heuston Luas Red Line to Tallaght & Saggart Inchicore Works Park West and Cherry Orchard Clondalkin/Fonthill Kishogeproposed Adamstown Hazelhatch and Celbridge Straffanclosed Sallins and Naas Newbridge Kildare Dublin–Waterford Line Monasterevin Portarlington Dublin to Cork main line Tullamore Clara Mullingar to Athlone Line closed 1987 Athlone Ballinasloe Woodlawn Attymon Western Railway Corridor to Limerick Athenry Western Railway Corridor (proposed) Oranmore Galway Roscommon Castlerea Ballyhaunis Western Railway Corridor (proposed) Claremorris Western Rly Corridor to Sligo (proposed) Manulla Junction (Exchange only) Foxford Ballina Castlebar Westport Midland Gt Western Rly to Achill closed 1937 Westport Quay

Attymon railway station (Irish: Stáisiún Áth Tíomáin) serves the townland of Attymon in County Galway.

The station is on the Dublin to Galway Rail service. Passengers to or from Westport railway station travel to Athlone and change trains. Passengers to or from Limerick and Ennis travel to Athenry and change trains.^[1]

Description

It is the smallest station on the Dublin-Galway line consisting of a single platform with no waiting room, just two shelters on the platform. The building at the station is boarded up and used as a store for line maintenance crew. There is a small free-of-charge car park at the station and a ticket machine is located at the entrance to the platform.

Local requests for better service

Residents of Attymon and the surrounding areas have made numerous requests to Iarnród Éireann to stop further trains in Attymon. On 26 April 2011 a protest numbering some two hundred local people took place at the next station to the east, Woodlawn. The local action group is requesting that Iarnród Éireann improve the eastbound service from the station by allowing a morning Galway to Dublin train to serve the station.^[2]

History

Attymon Junction station opened on 1 December 1890.^[3]

The station used to link the Dublin-Galway line with a branch line to Loughrea. The line closed in 1975 and link has been removed. A former railway preservation group called Westrail had hoped to reopen the line as a tourist line, but failed to do so.

The station once had three platforms in operation. A former footbridge over the Galway-Dublin track, that joined two of the platforms, is now used by a Dublin city commuter railway station.

See also

• List of railway stations in Ireland
• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

1. "Timetables". Irish Rail.
2. "Galway residents seek improved train services". RTÉ News. 26 April 2011.
3. "Attymon Junction station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.

External links

• "Attymon". Irish Rail.
• Attymon Junction to Loughrea Railway line