Abbeydorney railway station

Abbeydorney Mainistir Ó dTorna
General information
Location	Abbeydorney, County Kerry Ireland
Coordinates	52°20′56″N9°41′18″W / 52.349°N 9.6883°W / 52.349; -9.6883 [1]
History
Opened	1880
Closed	1978
Original company	Limerick and Kerry Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Southern and Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Southern Railways
Key dates
20 December 1880	Station opens
4 February 1963	Station closes to passengers
6 February 1978	Station closes entirely
Location

Abbeydorney railway station served the village of Abbeydorney in County Kerry, Ireland.

The station opened on 20 December 1880. The first Station Master appointed to Abbeydorney was a Mr John Hogan, a descendant of the Galloping O'Hogans of Limerick. He is laid to rest across the fields in the Old Abbey. The first passenger train made its maiden trip on 1 November of that year. Passenger services were withdrawn on 4 February 1963, although the route through Abbeydorney continued to be used by freight trains for a while before the line to Listowel was finally closed altogether in 1977 and then to Tralee 1978. The station closed on 6 February 1978. ^[2]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Lixnaw		Great Southern and Western Railway Limerick-Tralee line		Ardfert

References

1. Latitude.to. "GPS coordinates of Abbeydorney railway station, Ireland. Latitude: 52.3490 Longitude: -9.6883". Latitude.to, maps, geolocated articles, latitude longitude coordinate conversion. Retrieved 6 March 2019.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. "Abbeydorney station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2007.

Further reading

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   1-85260-508-1.^{[ page needed ]}
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN   0-906899-99-0.^{[ page needed ]}

External links

• http://homepage.tinet.ie/~abbeydorney/book/station.html