Crusheen railway station

Crusheen railway station is a closed railway station in the village of Crusheen, County Clare in Ireland. The station, which was originally built in the 1860s, was closed in 1976 for passenger traffic and in the 1990s for freight traffic.^[1]

Site of Crusheen's former railway station

In 2011, planning permission was granted to Iarnród Éireann for the construction of a new station on the proposed Western Railway Corridor.^[2] However, the proposed project was "not provided for" in Iarnród Éireann's 2013 budget,^[3] and by late 2019, the company's CEO said that there was no funding and "no provision for a station" at Crusheen.^[4]

References

1. "Railway Stations C » Crusheen". Eiretrains - Irish Railways Past & Present. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
2. Hough, Kevin (16 June 2011). "New railway station for Crusheen as part of Western Rail Corridor". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
3. "Irish Railway Record Society - Journal #182 - Stations". irrs.ie. Irish Railway Record Society Ltd. October 2013. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Crusheen is not provided for in our 2013 capital budget
4. McMahon, Paraic (28 December 2019). "Harty disappointed by Irish Rail dismissing possibility of Crusheen rail stop". clareecho.ie. Clare Echo. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

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