Attymon halt

53°11′49″N 8°34′01″W / 53.1969°N 8.5669°W / 53.1969; -8.5669Owned byIarnród ÉireannOperated byIarnród ÉireannPlatforms1ConstructionStructure typeAt-gradeOther informationStation codeATMONFare zoneNHistoryOpened1890Services

Preceding station		Iarnród Éireann		Following station
Woodlawn		InterCity Dublin–Westport/Galway railway line		Athenry
	Disused railways
Terminus		Midland Great Western Railway Attymon-Loughrea		Dunsandle

v t e Dublin to Galway/Westport
Legend
Year closed 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 Kishoge Adamstown Hazelhatch and Celbridge Straffan 1947 Sallins and Naas Newbridge Kildare Dublin–Waterford line Monasterevin Portarlington Dublin to Cork line Tullamore Horseleap Branch to Mullingar 1964 Clara Athlone Ballinasloe Woodlawn Attymon Western Railway Corridor to Limerick Athenry Oranmore Galway Roscommon Castlerea Ballyhaunis Claremorris to Collooney Manulla Junction Exchange only Foxford Ballina Castlebar Westport to Achill 1937 Westport Quay 1978

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

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 the 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.

The station used to link the Dublin-Galway line with a branch line to Loughrea. The line closed in 1975 and the 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

See also

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

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