Bridgetown railway station

Bridgetown railway station or Bridgetown halt served the village of Bridgetown, County Wexford, Ireland. It was unstaffed and accessible only via a wicket gate.

Bridgetown Baile an Droichid
Location	Bridgetown Ireland
Coordinates	52.230719°N 6.548926°W
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1 August 1906	Station opens
3 November 1975	Station closes for goods traffic
18 September 2010	Station closes for passenger traffic

The station opened on 1 August 1906[1] and closed on 18 September 2010.[2] The rail service was replaced by a revised Bus Éireann route 370 from Monday 20 September 2010:[3] Wexford Bus operate a shuttle bus service to Wexford and Kilmore Quay 3 times a day (2 on Wednesday & no Sunday service). A 4th service between Kilmore Quay and the town in each direction avoids the village. In recent years the platform has become a mecca for anti social behaviour by young people living within the village and litter is regular thrown by local households on to the running line. The line has also become a public footpath for locals who walk their dogs along it and school kids. Few people are aware that Irish Rail still maintain the route to an operational standard with several inspection cars plus a similar number of road/rail maintenance moves along the track each year. There's also an annual weedspray train usually hauled by an 071 diesel engine (the only proper full sized train along it each year).[4] Infrequent Bus Éireann route 381 (Blackhall-Wexford:[5]) and 383 (Kilmore Quay-Wexford:[6]) also serve Bridgetown.

Routes

Limerick–Rosslare
Year closed Limerick Colbert to Foynes 2009 Western Railway Corridor to Galway Killonan 1963 Limerick–Ballybrophy line Boher 1963 Dromkeen 1976 Pallas Oola 1963 ← Dublin–Cork line → Limerick Junction Tipperary Bansha 1963 River Suir Cahir Clonmel to Thurles 1967 Kilsheelan 1963 Carrick-on-Suir Fiddown and Portlaw 1855 Grange 1963 Dublin–Waterford line Mallow–Waterford line 1967 Waterford West goods yard Waterford Plunkett to New Ross 1995 River Barrow Campile 2010 Ballycullane 2010 Wellingtonbridge 2010 Duncormick 1976 Bridgetown 2010 Killinick 1976 Felthouse Junction curve closed 1918 Dublin– Rosslare Line Rosslare Strand Kilrane 1963 Rosslare Europort

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wellingtonbridge Line and station closed		InterCity Limerick-Rosslare Line		Rosslare Strand
Duncormick Line and station closed		Great Southern and Western Railway Limerick-Rosslare		Killinick Line and station closed

External links

• Irish Rail webpage for Bridgetown station

See also

• List of railway stations in Ireland

References

1. "Bridgetown station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Archived Document" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
4. http://wexfordbus.com/timetables/wexford-kilmore/
5. "Archived Document" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20111220180910/http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1284376415-370.pdf
• http://wexfordbus.com/timetables/wexford-kilmore
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110516205013/http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1202387061-381.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110516200852/http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1202387140-383.pdf