Ballysodare railway station

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Ballysodare

Baile Easa Dara
General information
Coordinates 54°12′48″N8°30′11″W / 54.2132°N 8.503°W / 54.2132; -8.503
Platforms2
History
Opened3 December 1962 (1962-12-03)
Closed17 June 1963 (1963-06-17)
Location
Ballysodare railway station

Ballysodare railway station, [a] currently with only the goods shed remaining, was located on the Dublin-Sligo railway line in Ballysadare, County Sligo. The station opened on 3 December 1862. It was closed to passengers on 17 June 1963 and finally closing to goods on 3 November 1975. [1]

Contents

The station is believed to have been double tracked since opening, being singled in 1958. [2]

Ballysodare station was on the Midland Great Western Railway which became part of Irish Rail. [3] From 1882 until 1957 it also was served by the last independent railway in the British Isles, the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway from Enniskillen. [3] [4] The Burma Road or the Western Rail Corridor line to Claremorris Junction, Tuam and Galway was served from the station as well as Sligo station.

The station had its own small goods shed at the northern end of the west platform. [5] Just beyond that a long siding diverged south westwards to the Flour Mills at Ballysadare; it was removed in the 1960s. [5]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ From references from when the station was open it always seems to have been titled Ballysodare in its lifeltime including timetables from 1920 reprinted in Shepherd (1994) which consistently refers to that name. The settlement was also more previously well known as Ballysodare. Currently an official name of Ballysadare for the settlement seems more generally adopted

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References

  1. ↑ "Ballysadare station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 24 November 2007.
  2. ↑ "Ballysodare - Sligo - 50th Anniversary of Singling". Irish Railway Record Society (165). 29 March 2008. Archived from the original on 30 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 Shepherd, Ernie (1994). The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland - An illustrated History. Midland Publishing Limited. pp. 23, 27, 61, 65, 77, 105, 118. ISBN   1-85780-008-7.
  4. ↑ Baker, H. C. (1995). Ireland's Railways Past and Present - Ireland - An Introduction (2005 ed.). Past and Present Publishing Ltd. p. 97. ISBN   1858952468.
  5. 1 2 "Ballysadare". Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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