Ballysodare railway station

Ballysodare railway station,[lower-alpha 1] 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]

Ballysodare Baile Easa Dara
Coordinates	54.2132°N 8.503°W / 54.2132; -8.503
Platforms	2
History
Opened	3 December 1962 (1962-12-03)
Closed	17 June 1963 (1963-06-17)

Dublin-Sligo main line
Year closed Sligo Mac Diarmada Sligo Quay freight terminal 2000 Ballysodare 1963 Ballisodare River Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Rly to Enniskillen 1957 proposed Western Railway Corridor to Limerick 1963 Collooney Ballymote Kilfree Junction 1963 to Ballaghaderreen 1963 Boyle Carrick-on-Shannon Drumsna 1963 River Shannon Cavan and Leitrim Railway Dromod Newtown Forbes 1963 Longford Edgeworthstown Street & Rathowen 1963 to Cavan 1959 Inny Junction 1931 Multyfarnham 1963 Clonhugh 1963 The Royal Canal to Athlone 1964 Mullingar Killucan 1963 Hill of Down 1963 River Boyne Moyvalley 1963 to Edenderry 1931 Enfield Ferns Lock 1963 Kilcock Maynooth Blakestown Leixlip Louisa Bridge Leixlip Confey Lucan North 1941 Barberstown Docklands branch to M3 Parkway Clonsilla Porterstown DM (future) Coolmine Coolmine Castleknock Blanchardstown 1937 Navan Road Parkway Ashtown Ashtown Pelletstown (future) Reilly's Bridge 1847 Broombridge Liffey Junction Passengers 1937 Goods 1977 Dublin Broadstone Passengers 1937 Goods 1961 Glasnevin 1910 The Royal Canal Phoenix Park Tunnel to Dublin Heuston Drumcondra Belfast–Dublin railway line Docklands ( Spencer Dock) The Royal Canal Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Saggart and Tallaght Dublin-Rosslare railway line to Rosslare Europort = Western Commuter

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

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. 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. "Ballysadare". Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019.