| Collooney Cúil Mhuine  | |||||||||||||
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 Collooney Station in 1993 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Collooney, County Sligo, F91 XK49 Ireland | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°11′12″N 8°29′41″W / 54.186617°N 8.494781°W / 54.186617; -8.494781 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Iarnród Éireann | ||||||||||||
| Operated by | Iarnród Éireann | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | COLNY | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | P | ||||||||||||
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| 1862 | Station opened | ||||||||||||
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Collooney railway station serves the town of Collooney in County Sligo, Ireland and is on the Dublin-Sligo railway line. It was the first of three stations to be built in Collooney and remains the only one still in service.
History
Collooney once had three railway stations. The first and sole surviving station was opened by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) on 3 December 1862 as part of the extension of its line from Longford to Sligo. On 1 September 1881 the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway (SL&NCR) opened its station to the east, before building a connection to the MGWR at Carrignagat Junction to the north and thus completing its line from Enniskillen to Sligo. Finally, on 1 October 1895, the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway (WL&WR) opened its station to the west, as part of the extension of its line from Claremorris to Sligo. The WL&DR was taken over by the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) in 1901.
Following the creation of the Irish Free State, the MGWR and the GS&WR became part of the Great Southern Railways (GSR) in 1925. In turn, the GSR became part of Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) in 1945.
On 1 October 1957, the SL&NCR's Collooney station closed along with the company. The line to Enniskillen was lifted shortly afterward. The GS&WR station closed on 17 June 1963 when CIÉ withdrew passenger services between Claremorris and Sligo; this line remained open for goods traffic until 1975, after which it fell into dereliction (though it is proposed to re-open in the future as part of the Western Railway Corridor).
Services
Today, the MGWR station is served by trains on the Dublin Connolly–Sligo InterCity service. It is unstaffed.
See also
References
- O’Meara, John (June 2010). "Accident at Collooney Midland — Wednesday 22 December 1943". Irish Railway Record Society (172). Archived from the original on 23 November 2017.
- FUSIO. "Collooney Railway Station, BLEACHGREEN, Collooney, SLIGO". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ "Irish railways" (PDF). Railscot. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2007.