Longford railway station [SEP] date of official opening
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Edgeworthstown railway station


Edgeworthstown railway station serves the town of Edgeworthstown (Mostrim) in County Longford, Ireland. Edgeworthstown station is served by national rail company Iarnród Éireann's Dublin to Longford commuter service and Dublin to Sligo intercity service. The station opened on 8 November 1855. It was formerly called "Mostrim railway station", from an anglicisation of the towns Irish language name, but this fell out of official usage by the 1990s. Cheaper tickets can be purchased in advance, online at http://www.irishrail.ie. These can be collected from one of the two
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Longford


. It was opened on 2 June 1995 and constitutes part of the planned Longford Ring Road which will encircle the town when completed. Longford is about from Sligo and from Dublin. It lies on the Dublin-Sligo line of the Irish railway network, and is served by Sligo-Dublin intercity services. Despite its distance from Dublin, the town also has a regular, well-utilised commuter service to Dublin. Journeys to Dublin Connolly by rail generally take about an hour and three-quarters. Longford railway station opened on
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Drumcondra railway station


Drumcondra is a railway station on the Dublin Connolly to Longford and Grand Canal Dock to Newbridge commuter services. Almost all Sligo and Longford to Dublin services stop at Drumcondra. It serves Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland and is the nearest railway station for Croke Park. It is elevated with just the entrance on the main Drumcondra road. The ticket office is open from 07:00 AM to 23:30 PM, Monday to Sunday. Directly outside station is a bus stop with connections to Dublin Airport and Swords (Dublin Bus stop 17) The station
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Longford railway station


Longford railway station serves the town of Longford in County Longford, Ireland. Longford is the terminus of Iarnród Éireann's Dublin Connolly–Longford Commuter service, and is also a stop on the Dublin Connolly–Sligo InterCity service. Longford is approximately from Sligo and from Dublin. Journeys to the capital by rail generally take about an hour and three quarters. Numerous Bus Éireann Expressway and local bus routes stop immediately outside the station. Independent Cavan operator Whartons Travel operates a route to the station via Crossdoney, Arvagh and Drumlish. Longford
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Mullingar


Broadstone Station) to Galway via Mullingar, then via Moate to Athlone, the Mullingar to Galway section opening in August 1851. The present station opened with the branch line to Longford on 14 December 1855. There were two secondary stations in Mullingar, Canal Crossing cattle bank was on the Sligo Line and on the Athlone Line, Newbrook racecourse had its own station. This was a two-platformed station with both platforms on the Down Line. These days, the Dublin-Sligo railway line northwest to Longford and Sligo is the
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Dublin–Sligo railway line


The Dublin to Sligo main line is a railway route operated by Iarnród Éireann in Ireland. It starts in Dublin Connolly station, terminating at Sligo Mac Diarmada railway station in Sligo. The route is double track as far as Maynooth, being single track with passing loops between there and Sligo. Between Dublin and Longford, the route is operated as part of Dublin Suburban Rail, specifically the Western Commuter service. The extension from Longford to Sligo opened on 3 September 1862. From Dublin the route mostly bends alongside the Royal Canal to
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Collooney railway station


Collooney railway station serves the town of Collooney in County Sligo, Ireland. Collooney once had three railway stations. The current station was opened by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) on 3 December 1862 as part of the extension of its line from Longford to Sligo. On 1 September 1881 the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway (SL&NCR) opened its station to the east, before building a connection to the MGWR at Carrignagat Junction to the north and thus completing its line from Enniskillen to Sligo. Finally, on
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Mullingar railway station


Mullingar railway station serves the town of Mullingar in County Westmeath, Ireland. Mullingar station is served by national rail company Iarnród Éireann's Dublin to Longford commuter service and Dublin to Sligo intercity service. The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland have a secondary base in the town. A turntable remains here used by steam locomotives a couple of times a year. The station opened on 2 October 1848. The Midland Great Western Railway line to Mullingar from Dublin opened in stages from 1846 to 1848, arriving in Mullingar on 2 October 1848.
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Kakogawa Station


There are three island platforms with six tracks elevated. The station opened on December 23, 1888 when the Sanyō Railway extended from to . On April 1, 1913, Banshū Railway (now Kakogawa Line) opened its terminal named Kakogawachō, which was merged into Kakogawa Station later (the railway company's application was posted on the Official Gazette ("Kanpō") on May 14, 1915, but the actual date of the merger is unknown). The Banshū Railway also opened the line later named the Takasago Line originating from
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Lyttelton railway station


. The first train to Lyttelton was a freight consist headed by the provincial railways No. 3 locomotive, which ran through the tunnel to Lyttelton the week of 25 November, two weeks before the official opening of the tunnel and the station. The first passenger train arrived at Lyttelton on 9 December 1867, the date the station was officially opened. After opening, operations settled down to a schedule of three mixed return services for daily runs between Lyttelton and Christchurch. Passenger traffic on the preceding Ferrymead line had been very light,
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Newtownforbes


c. 1860 to serve the Mullingar to Sligo line the station was closed in 1963. It was probably built to designs by George Wilkinson (1814 - 1890), a noted architect of his day, who also completed the designs for a number of other railway stations for The Midland and Great Western Railway Company (on the Mullingar to Longford and the Inny Junction to Cavan lines) at this time. It remains an important component of the architectural and industrial heritage of County Longford (on the Mullingar to Longford and the Inny Junction
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Date Station


Date Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 281.9 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo Station. Date Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is attended. The station opened on April 1, 1895, as . It was renamed Date on December 1, 1914. The current station building was completed in 1939. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April
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Ballaghaderreen branch line


The Ballaghaderreen branch line was a railway line that opened in 1874 and closed in 1963. The branch ran from the Kilfree Junction railway station on the Dublin to Sligo main line and terminated at Ballaghaderreen. Following the extension of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) from Longford to Sligo in 1862 the Sligo & Ballaghaderreen Railway Company was incorporated in 1963 with the purpose of creating the Ballaghaderreen branch. The line opened in 1874 and was operated by the MGWR. In 1924 MGWR was part of a merger forming the "Great Southern
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Ballymote railway station


Ballymote railway station serves the town of Ballymote in County Sligo, Ireland. The station opened on 3 December 1862 with the Midland Great Western Railway extension from Longford to Sligo. Originally the station was built having two platforms with a passing loop. There was also a goods depot, shed and goods yard that have since been demolished. On 2 August 1903 a double headed passenger train for Sligo collided with the mail train for Dublin. Three passengers were injured. The investigation concluded the passenger train, whose main driver had been on
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Barlaston railway station


Barlaston railway station served the village of Barlaston in Staffordshire, England. This station was opened on 17 April 1848 and is on the first line opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on that date. Trains no longer stop at Barlaston. The to local service was withdrawn when the route was temporarily closed for major refurbishment on 23 May 2004 as part of the West Coast Main Line Modernisation scheme and never reinstated. Passengers are now served by bus service No 14 and 14X operated by D&G Bus, which acts as the station's official
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Mullingar railway station


This was to a temporary station, adjacent to the greyhound stadium. The original mainline ran from Dublin (Broadstone) to Galway via Mullingar and Athlone, the Mullingar to Galway section opening in August 1851. The present station opened with the branch line to Longford on 14 December 1855. There were two secondary stations in Mullingar. Canal Crossing cattle bank was on the Sligo Line and on the Athlone Line, Newbrook racecourse had its own station. This was unique in that it was a two platformed station with both platforms on the
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Multyfarnham


fishing, with authorised permits. Horse-riding facilities are also available nearby. Multyfarnham railway station opened on 8 November 1855 and finally closed on 17 June 1963. The nearest railway station is now located at Mullingar railway station approximately 15 km distant. The nearest bus stop is located at Ballinalack some 7 kilometres distant and is served by Bus Éireann Expressway routes 022 and 023 several times daily. Until the evening of 24 August 2013 Bus Éireann route 115 (Longford–Mullingar–Maynooth–Dublin) served Multyfarnham once a day in
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Banavie Pier railway station


transported to Banavie from Inverness. The official closure date for the passenger service was 4 September 1939 however the last train actually ran on 15 September. Freight services ceased on 6 August 1951. The first "Banavie Junction" was located on the West Highland Railway around one mile east of Fort William railway station and was opened on 1 June 1895 when the branch line to Banavie Pier was opened. When the Mallaig Extension Railway opened on 30 March 1901 the junction was renamed "Mallaig Junction" however a second 'new' "
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Powfoot Halt railway station


halt was not open to the general public and only served workers at the munitions factory. The halt is recorded on the OS map published in 1954 on the line next to the Longfords Cottage to Broom lane. The relatively short platforms were built on the double track line from wood and were reached by a set of wooden steps leading up from the Longfords to Broom lane. In 1966 the halt was still present. A line ran into the factory that has now been removed and nothing remains of the halt. The old factory
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Ballynacargy


Ballynacargy, or Ballinacarrigy, () is a small village in County Westmeath, Ireland on the Royal Canal and the R393 regional road. The last official commercial navigation of the canal took place in 1955. Bus Éireann route 448 provides a link to Mullingar on Fridays only departing at 10.15 and returning from Mullingar at 13.30. The nearest railway station is Mullingar railway station approximately 15 kilometres distant. Until the evening of 24 August 2013 Bus Éireann route 118 (Dublin-Mullingar-Longford) served Ballynacargy on Saturdays only allowing passengers to
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Tarago railway station


Junction to Bungendore section was awarded to W S Topham & J Angus (tramway contractors) on 3 October 1882. The contract for construction of a station building, Station Master's residence, and goods shed is recorded as being let to G. & C. Horn on 17 December 1883 and Tarago as being officially opened on 3 January 1884. The exact date that the station building and other original buildings were completed is unclear, but it is likely that it was much later than the official opening of January 1884 - either that or
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Peel Road railway station


reflect the fact that it was the railway's station closest to Peel, although it is also thought that the original title was derisory to the local inhabitants and the railway had received a number of requests to re-title the station. At one time there was a sharply curving siding off the running line which facilitated the collection of stone from the nearby quarry, but the opening and closure dates are unknown. The station was officially closed in and removed from all timetable literature after this point. Trains did however still stop at
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Alloa railway station


end of September 2006. It was originally projected that the station would reopen to passenger traffic in the Summer of 2007 but this date was then put back to allow for the upgrading of a level crossing. The official opening took place on Thursday, 15 May 2008. Passenger use of the new railway station has greatly exceeded forecasts and since re-opening the service has been improved by increasing evening and Sunday frequencies from two-hourly to hourly and by adding the peak hour service to Edinburgh in 2009. In its first year
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St Thomas the Apostle parish, Laurel Lodge


to the Riverwood estate forms the western edge. It comprises the housing estates of Laurel Lodge, Carpenterstown Park, Bramley, Oaktree, Laverna and Ashleigh. There are two Irish Rail train stations in the parish: Castleknock and Coolmine. Trains on the Maynooth/Longford line connect the city centre, at Dublin Connolly, Tara Street and Dublin Pearse stations, to Maynooth, Longford and Sligo. The Dublin–Navan railway line connects Docklands railway station to Hansfield and Dunboyne. The parish is served by two Dublin Bus routes: 37
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Newtownforbes


to Cavan lines) at this time. It remains an important component of the architectural and industrial heritage of County Longford. This church was built or re-built in 1829 to a cruciform plan and is situated in Main Street. The quality of the craftsmanship in this church is well noted. A particularly notable feature is the box pews with fielded panels which are believed to be the last remaining examples in Ireland. The railway passes through Newtownforbes but the station closed in 1963. The nearest railway station is Longford. The Bus
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Kunming North railway station


. However, the service was terminated again in December 2017 due to the construction of Kunming Metro line 4. The Yunnan Railway Museum (云南铁路博物馆, "Yunnan Tielu Bowuguan") is adjacent to the station's tracks. As of 2012, most of the museum is closed due to the Kunming Metro construction and the replacement of the terminal building, but its historical railcar exhibit is still open. In Sep. 2014, the museum was completely reopened to the public. Historic railcars and locomotives are settled in a trainshed across from the
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Dublin Pearse railway station


the Northern Commuter to Balbriggan / Dundalk and Western Commuter to Maynooth / Longford services The station has two through platforms, 1 and 2, the former on the Boyne Street side for northbound "up" services towards Connolly station, the other on the Pearse Street side for southbound "down" services towards Bray. The ticket office is open from 07:30 AM to 21:50 PM, Monday to Sunday. The station also has a café and public toilets. The southbound entrance (Pearse Street and Trinity Bio Science) is open 07:00 AM
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Longford


, a longstanding local bus company based in Granard, operate a route from Longford to Granard via Ballinalee. There are three journeys each way daily (no Sunday service) Whartons Travel, which is also a longstanding local bus service, operate a route from Longford railway station and Longford to Cavan via Drumlish, Arvagh and Crossdoney. As of 2014, this service is funded by the National Transport Authority. Longford's main air transport centre is located south-east of the town, at Abbeyshrule, the local airport. Abbeyshrule Aerodrome
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Coventry Arena railway station


previous station has existed at this site, however the former Longford and Exhall station, which closed in 1949 was situated around to the north. Funding for the new station was approved in December 2011. In August 2012 it was announced that construction of the new station was to start in December of that year and take approximately 12 months to complete, with the station due to open in December 2013. However, the start of construction was delayed, mainly due to uncertainty surrounding Coventry City F.C.'s future at the Ricoh Arena.
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Berlin Jannowitzbrücke station


Riedel" companies. When the Jannowitz Bridge was rebuilt (1881–1883), the suburban station of the same name was opened on the Berlin Stadtbahn (“city railway”) viaduct next to the Spree river. The opening date is officially stated to be 7 February 1882. Since the station was just an open platform with a canopy, passengers were exposed to the weather and the smoke of the locomotives. In 1885, the station was given its first weather protection in the form of a wall of glass, which was built
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Drumcondra railway station


initially opened on 1 April 1901 but closed on 1 December 1910 with the termination of Kingsbridge (now Heuston Station) to Amiens Street (now Connolly Station) services. Part of the original building was demolished in late 1918. It reopened on 2 March 1998 as a station on the Maynooth/Longford commuter line. Drumcondra was planned as an interchange stop on the proposed Metro North line of the Dublin Metro. In March 2018, after the revised plans of the new Dublin Metro, Metrolink, it is now proposed that the
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Narrandera railway station


important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. The site is significant as a partly intact late Victorian railway complex with items dating from the opening of the station in 1881. Railway operations at Narrandera date back to the "Great Railway Years" in NSW in the late 19th century, with the station opening during the time of the earliest development of railway infrastructure in south western NSW in the 1880s. Narrandera Railway Precinct has historic significance for its connection to the NSW Government Railway
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Vale of Glamorgan Line


constituent part of the Great Western Railway in 1923, after the railway grouping and was known as the Vale of Glamorgan Railway. Local traffic on the line included that from the limestone quarries and the cement works at Aberthaw, and Rhoose at the eastern end of the line. Wartime traffic was created from Tremains and Brackla Hill at Bridgend and the RAF base at St. Athan. More recent developments were the opening of the Aberthaw power stations (Aberthaw "A" in October 1963 (official opening date) and Aberthaw "B"
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Nottingham Victoria railway station


Nottingham Joint St'n". In the 1898 Royal Atlas of England, the station is recorded as the "Grt Central & Grt Northern Joint Central Station" The Town Clerk resolved the situation by suggesting the name "Nottingham Victoria" to reflect the fact that the planned opening date coincided with Queen Victoria's birthday; this was readily accepted at a meeting of the Nottingham Joint Station Committee on 12 June. Nottingham Victoria station was officially opened without ceremony in the early hours of 24 May 1900 – over a year after the commencement of
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Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad


. The Bill got the Presidential assent and a Gazette notification was made on 6 Sep 2016, thus officially converting erstwhile Indian School of Mines into an Indian Institute of Technology. IIT is located in Dhanbad, the second most populated city in the state of Jharkhand. The institute is located 3 km from the Dhanbad Junction railway station, which lies on the Kolkata (Howrah) - Delhi railway line. IIT (ISM) has the following departments and centers: IIT (ISM) offers courses in engineering, pure sciences, management
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Transport 21


2006 and the station opened in March 2007. By by-passing Connolly and using Docklands Station, it was possible to add extra services on the Maynooth and Longford Commuter services and it provided an alternative terminus for Western Commuter services to Clonsilla and M3 Parkway. The former Clonsilla to Navan railway line was closed in 1963, but the trackbed was largely preserved. Under the Transport 21 plan, a section of the disused Navan rail line would run from Clonsilla station in west Dublin to Navan in county Meath (42 km).
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Pahiatua railway station


part of the project. It was expected that a new goods shed and loading shelter would be added in the future. The signals and communications equipment was housed in a separate building. This was one of the last wooden station buildings of its type erected by the Railways Department before it switched to more modern materials. Arrangements were made in January and February for the official opening ceremony, for which the dates of 10 March and 17 March were initially proposed. The Ways and Works Branch were requested to have the old station building
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Black Island Platform railway station


Black Island Platform railway station, Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was located at an area known as the Black Island beside the River Garry. The station was used during WWII by forestry workers and was not open for use by the general public. Standing on the old Inverness and Perth Junction Railway route it lay 36 mi 16 chains (58.3 km) from Perth railway station. The station's date of opening date has not been ascertained however the CFC had also worked in Scotland during WWI and on the 1927
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Scropton railway station


Scropton railway station was a short-lived railway station in Derbyshire, England. The railway line between Uttoxeter and Burton-on-Trent was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1848 and a station to serve the village of Scropton was opened at about the same time (the actual date is imprecise but the station was mentioned in timetables issued in 1849–50). The station remained open only for a short time before being closed at the beginning of 1866. After closure the station site was used for exchange sidings
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Birchfield Halt railway station


Birchfield Platform railway station, Birchfield Halt railway station or Birchfield Siding railway station served the rural area near Glen of Rothes House, Moray, Scotland from 1871 to 1956 on the Morayshire Railway. 1884 is another suggested opening date however it contradicts the map evidence. This was an intermediate station on the Craigellachie-Elgin line of the former Great North of Scotland Railway that had originally been opened by the Morayshire Railway on 1 January 1862. The station was opened circa 1871 as Birchfield Halt by the Great North of Scotland Railway. It
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Hixon railway station


Hixon railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England. The railway line between Stone and Colwich was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1849 A station was opened to serve the village of Hixon, the exact opening date of the station is not recorded but it first appeared in "Bradshaw's Railway Guide" in December 1864. Although the line was a busy route for the NSR for traffic to and from Birmingham and the south; the amount of local traffic carried was low and passenger services were
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Long Ashton railway station


. Quite when the station opened is uncertain – Butt's "Directory of Railway Stations" states that the station opened with the line in June 1841, but Quick's "Railway Passenger Stations" states it only opened in June 1852. Both sources agree that the station closed in January 1856, however other sources such as Oakley's "Somerset Railway Stations" contain no reference to Ashton at all. If the earlier date is correct, services would have originally been provided by the Great Western Railway on behalf of the Bristol &
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Pahiatua railway station


removed and the site tidied up prior to this time. The date of the ceremony was later moved to 31 March, and members of the public were invited to attend. Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake officially opened the station, with around 100 guests and members of the public in attendance. Special guests included Colonel W. R. Burge, son of Pahiatua's first stationmaster; past station masters, including J. Weston; W. W. Day, chairman of the Pahiatua County Council; T. M. Small, Deputy General Manager of the Railways;
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Dromahair


a fortified house constructed for Sir William Villiers (c. 1629) is located in the village. In 1798 General Humbert led Irish and French forces to defeat the British at battles in Castlebar and at Carricknagat near Collooney. Humbert's forces were then pursued through Leitrim to Longford. His army is known to have rested in Dromahair and captured British artillery was thrown into the Bonet to allow faster movement of the army. Dromahair was connected to the railway network until the late 1950s. The railway station opened on 1 September 1881 as part
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Derradd


the Dublin to Longford commuter service and the Dublin to Sligo intercity service, passes through the townland. The Ordnance Survey map, produced at the time of the Griffith's Valuation survey of Ireland (completed in 1869), shows a junction of two lines. The modern-day mainline is shown as the Mullingar and Longford Railway, the branch line to Cavan is marked as the Cavan Junction Railway and the station is shown as Cavan or Derradd Junction. In the 1911 census of Ireland there were 5 houses and 33 inhabitants in
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Kilcock railway station


Kilcock railway station serves the town of Kilcock in County Kildare, Ireland. It is a station on the Dublin Connolly to Longford commuter service and Dublin to Sligo Intercity Service. Passengers change at Maynooth to travel to stations on the Dublin to Maynooth and Dublin to M3 Parkway commuter services. The railway arrived in Kilcock on 28 June 1847, but the station closed on 1 July 1848, as it was sited on a 1 in 100 gradient, which the locomotives of the day found difficult to start off from. This site was
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Wakefield Kirkgate railway station


Wakefield Kirkgate railway station is a railway station in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Unlike the nearby Wakefield Westgate railway station, Kirkgate is unstaffed. The station is managed by Northern but also served by Grand Central. It is on the Hallam, Pontefract and Huddersfield lines. It has a limited number of services to London King's Cross. The original Kirkgate station opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840 was the only station in Wakefield until Westgate was opened in 1867. The railway station building dates from 1854. Some
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South Brisbane railway station


South Brisbane railway station, was let to Henry Pears on 22 June 1891. It was the second masonry station to be erected in Brisbane after Roma Street railway station (opening 1875) and pre-dating Central railway station (opening in 1901) by a decade. Passenger services commenced on 21 December 1891, although the station building had not been completed. For this reason there was no accompanying opening ceremony. When the building opened shortly afterwards it included a temperance refreshment room, and served commuters on the South Coast, Cleveland
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Navan Road Parkway railway station


of Auburn Avenue and New Dunsink Lane. Access to the station is via a grade-separated junction off the R147. Similar to both Dún Laoghaire railway station and Leixlip Louisa Bridge railway station, the station building is on the bridge that connects the two platforms. From here there are lifts and stairs down to each platform. It is an unmanned station. The station is served by Western Commuter services. Both main services (westbound to Maynooth and Longford and eastbound to Dublin city centre and Docklands branch services (from to Docklands
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Strathaven Central railway station


wagons that were awaiting repair. The line had been intended as a through route between Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, however there was very little traffic along the route as the population in the area was very low. The other stations on the route were closed from September until November 1909 and then again from January 1917 until December 1922. As stated, the last train ran on 10 September 1939, however the official closing date was two weeks later. Strathaven Central station was also on the old Caledonian Railway line to Stonehouse that remained open
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Milton Halt railway station


Milton Halt railway station is a former railway station that served the village of Milton in northern Oxfordshire, England. The station was built by the Great Western Railway. It opened to passengers on 1 January 1908 (Jenkins gives the date as 1 January 1906 but the Board of Trade plan on the same page is dated 14 November 1907 suggesting that the 1908 date given by other sources is correct). The Halt had a wooden platform and "pagoda" shelter. There was also a small corrugated iron shed, identified as "
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Trevarno railway station


of the line at that time. It also served the Trevarno estate gardens until circa 2011. The grand opening ceremony of Trevarno Station was officially held on 26 July 2010 however the station was not able to operate as it was not permitted to carry passengers on that date. Trevarno Station has a through and a bay platform with a single long siding. It has a station lamp but it no longer has a station building or car park. This is a now request stop and passenger access is by the Black Bridge reached via
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Marchington railway station


Marchington railway station was a railway station in Marchington, Staffordshire. It was on the Crewe to Derby Line. The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway. The opening date is unsure but the first record of the station in Bradshaw's is in February 1854 and from 1862 it was also served by Great Northern Railway on the route between Stafford and Grantham line. The station was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1958. The platforms are still in place today and the station masters cottage is now in private residence although
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Edinburgh–Bathgate line


the district was inadequate, and the large premises would require a considerable volume of general stores as well as coal. A private branch railway was opened to the public on 19 June 1905 from the E&BR line, authorised by the Edinburgh and District Lunacy Board Act, 30 July 1900. (The line may have been used before the official opening date in connection with construction of the hospital.) It was worked by the North British Railway, and there was an intermediate station at Dechmont, available to the general public, and
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Rail transport in Jamaica


of the economy. The railway station clerk was responsible for cancelling the stamps on correspondence with a date-stamp. Each station already had its own date-stamp (used to validate passenger railway tickets); this same date-stamp was used to cancel stamps on mail. Forty one railway stations are known to have cancelled mail though some of them handled very little mail. Inland mail to and from the Jamaica Government Railway could be sent postage free if it related to official business. From 1 September 1913 sorting carriages were
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Archer Park Rail Museum


of the Alexandra Railway Bridge, the Emu Park and Central Railway provided a unified rail link between the two halves of Rockhampton. The Archer Park station was not ready for the opening of the Junction Railway, and no official opening ceremony was held; however the station was opened for the use of the public from 11 December 1899. The official name Archer Park was adopted in October 1899, rather than Leichhardt Park, from which it was resumed. Being the central station for Rockhampton, Archer Park superseded the Stanley Street station not
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Andora railway station


Andora railway station () is a railway station serving the town of Andora, in Liguria, northwestern Italy. The station is located on the Genoa–Ventimiglia railway and was opened on December 11, 2016. The train services are operated by Trenitalia. The station was built to replace the former station Andora dating from 1872. The station was opened as part of an 18.8 km new double-track railway between Andora and San Lorenzo which operates largely through tunnels, rather than winding along the coast. The station is served by
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Zhangjiakou railway station (Opened in 1957)


Zhangjiakou railway station ( (Formerly known as Zhangjiakou South railway station () until February 2019) is a railway station of Jingbao Railway, Zhangji Railway and Jingzhang Intercity Railway located in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. The station was constructed in 1956 and officially opened in 1957. It belongs to the Beijing Railway Administration and the Beijing-Baotou Railway railway routes. The line is the future terminus of the Beijing–Zhangjiakou intercity railway, the Zhangjiakou–Hohhot high-speed railway and the Zhangjiakou–Datong High-Speed Railway.
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Sint-Truiden railway station


Sint-Truiden railway station ( ) is a railway station in the town of Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium. The station opened on 2 April 1838 and is located on line 21. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS). Sint-Truiden used to be located on 23 (Drieslinter-Tongeren). The current station dates from the 1970s and replaced a building dating from 1882 which was demolished in 1975. In 2005 the station and its surrounding area was modernised. Extra bike
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Jialuhe railway station


Jialuhe railway station () is a closed station on Zhengzhou–Kaifeng Intercity Railway. The station is located at the crossing of Zhengkai Avenue and Zhengxin Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, China. The station was originally named as Zhengxinlu Station (). It was changed to the current name prior to its opening along with the Zhengzhou–Kaifeng Intercity Railway in December 2014. On 10 January 2016, the station was closed due to lack of passengers. The re-opening date was not given. The station is an elevated train
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Hampton-in-Arden railway station


Hampton-in-Arden railway station serves the village of Hampton-in-Arden in the West Midlands of England. It is situated on the West Coast Main Line between Coventry and Birmingham. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway. The present station dates from 1884, when it was built by the London and North Western Railway (L&BR). It replaced an earlier station dating from the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837 which was located approximately further north-west
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Roodeschool railway station


Roodeschool is a railway station located in Roodeschool, Netherlands. The station was opened on 16 August 1893 and is located at the end of the Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway. The train services are operated by Arriva. For well over a century, Roodeschool was the northernmost station in the Netherlands, until 28 March 2018, when further along the line, the station Eemshaven was opened, slightly more north. At the same date, the old, head-end station, was closed and a new station for Roodeschool was opened,
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Railway stations not officially closed with no services in the United Kingdom


However, proposals have been made to reopen Wedgwood and/or Barlaston, but nothing has been confirmed and the future of the two stations is unknown. Norton Bridge railway station services were suspended in 2004. The station officially closed on 10 December 2017 to coincide with the new West Midland franchise, with the replacement bus carrying on to March 2019. Newhaven Marine railway station was closed in 2006 when the station was decided that it was "not safe for passengers". As for re-opening, no proposals to open the station has
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Maryport and Carlisle Railway


engines" The 1912 statistics of the line included the following information: Note: the date of opening of the first portion of the railway to Arkleby, and of the passenger stations on it, are uncertain. A special directors' train ran on 15 July 1840 but Quick says that the safest date for public opening to passengers is Autumn 1840. Derwent line Bolton loop There were two private stations on the line, at Dovenby and at Crofton; A private railway station owned by a lady is a novelty even amongst such novelties
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Witney railway station (goods)


allocation when the new Witney station opened, was demolished during November 1905 after having been used for storage purposes. When the East Gloucestershire Railway opened an extension of the line in 1873, a new passenger station was constructed on a different site to the south, opening on 15 January 1873. This left the old station on a spur line, and it became the town's goods depot on the same date. The directors of the Witney Railway had first been opposed to the downgrading of their station but the Great Western Railway,
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Mount Victoria railway station


was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The station opened on 6 September 1869. The Platform 2 building dates from 1869 with a railway refreshment room added in 1884. The Platform 1 building dates from 1911 when the line was duplicated. An extensive yard including a locomotive depot existed west of the station. Mount Victoria has always been an important railway centre since its opening in 1868. It was the first platform structure made of material other than timber built after Penrith station. The original station
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Loughor railway station


Loughor railway station was on the South Wales Railway, now the West Wales Line, from Swansea to . The station was located on the west side of Swansea in the residential area of Loughor. The railway line between and was opened on 11 October 1852 by the broad gauge South Wales Railway, which later became part of the Great Western Railway. The engineer of this line was Brunel. Originally, Loughor was the first station westwards from Landore; and were opened at later dates. The station was double track, with 2
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Penistone railway station


Penistone railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern. The current station (at the junction of the Woodhead Line and Penistone Line) opened in 1874, replacing a station solely on the Woodhead Line dating from the line's opening by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845. The railway station currently only serves the Penistone Line. The line connects Huddersfield with Sheffield, via Barnsley
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Warmsworth railway station


Warmsworth railway station was a railway station to serve the village of Warmsworth, South Yorkshire, England and was on the Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway. It was built ready for the opening of the line on 1 May 1916 with flanking platforms and facilities. However, although the line opened to goods traffic on that date, along with the other stations on the line it never opened for passengers. The only passenger trains to operate over the line were enthusiasts' specials, the last of these being the "Doncaster
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Coastal railway line, Israel


built. Over the years additional stations were built along the line, including Hadera West (1957), Haifa Hof HaCarmel (1999), Tel Aviv University (2000), Caesarea-Pardes Hanna (June 2001), Lev HaMifratz (Sep 2001) and Hutzot HaMifratz (Oct 2001). A new section that includes six new stations along the South Ayalon Highway and Highway 4 was constructed in the early 2000s and connected the Coastal Railway with Ashdod Ad Halom railway station of the Lod–Ashkelon railway. The first phase
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Rail transport in Vatican City


be ₤24 million. The station building (see below) was constructed between 1929 and 1933. The first locomotive entered the Vatican in March 1932. The station was opened officially on 2 October 1934. A Railway Convention was ratified between Italy and Vatican City on 12 September 1934, on which date the property passed from "Ferrovie dello Stato" (Italian State Railways) to the Holy See. In October 1934 the Ministry of Public Works gave the completed rail lines to Vatican City and Ferrovie dello Stato, respectively. "Legge
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Wronki railway station


Wronki railway station is a railway station serving the town of Wronki, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1848 and is located on the Poznań–Szczecin railway. The train services are operated by PKP and Przewozy Regionalne. The station building dates from 1880 and has been a registered monument since 2002. In 2012 and 2013 2.6 million zł was spent on modernising the station, making it accessible for less able people. The modernised station was opened in November 2013. The station is served by the following
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Quedlinburg station


. The station was opened on 2 July 1862 with the railway line from Halberstadt to Thale. The entrance building and other buildings date from its opening. A number of industrial companies settled in the following years near the railway. In 1885, Quedlinburg became a small railway junction with the opening of the line to Gernrode and Ballenstedt. The railway line to Blankenburg was opened in 1908. The station had to be rebuilt to accommodate the additional trains. During the reconstruction, a new platform 1 West and a new water tower were
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White Bear railway station


White Bear railway station, on Station Road, Adlington, Lancashire, England, was on the Lancashire Union Railway line between St Helens and Blackburn. The station was named in some timetables as White Bear (Adlington) or White Bear for Adlington. The station opened on 1 December 1869 one month after the line that it was situated on, the Lancashire Union Railway from Boars Head Junction in Standish to Rawlinson Bridge, opened for goods traffic. Passenger services also opened on the same date at Boars Head Junction and at Red Rock
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Hangzhou East railway station


the site. It officially opened on 1 July 2013, in conjunction with the opening of the Hangzhou–Ningbo High-Speed Railway and Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway. The station also serves the Shanghai–Hangzhou Passenger Railway. It has 30 railway tracks, and stations for Hangzhou Metro lines 1 and 4. A coach station and bus terminals are also part of the new transit hub. Hangzhou East railway station is served by a station of the same name on Line 1 and Line 4 of Hangzhou Metro. This station offers
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Neunkirchen Hauptbahnhof


"Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn"). The first passenger trains ran daily from April 1851 to Ludwigshafen and back. The station itself was officially opened on 15 or 16 November 1852 together with the Neunkirchen–Saarbrücken line. Eight years later, on 25 May 1860, the double-track Rhine–Nahe Railway ("Rhein-Nahebahn") was completed to a new station building, the so-called "Nahebahnhof" ("Nahe station") built in its current location. The old station, dating from 1850, was
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Northallerton West railway station


Work started on the station's construction in October 2014, with the official opening taking place on 22 November 2014. The date also coincided with the restart of services from . The first train to arrive at the brand new station was a four-coach service hauled by HN Rail's Brush Type 4 Class 47 715 "Poseidon" in Fragonset livery. The station, along with that at , was closed in August 2016 following a collision between a train and a car at a level crossing near Yafforth. It is hoped to
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Christ's Hospital railway station


, although it was only infrequently used. On the opposite side of the station at the end of the Up main line platform was "North Box" (or "A Box"), which replaced a previous box known as "Stammerham Junction" dating from 1865, possibly at the same time as South Box was brought into use or even a few days earlier. The station opened on 28 April 1902, although the official ceremony took place on Thursday 1 May 1902. The station was initially known as "Christ's
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St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station


signs and other official documents by 1974: the return of the term came in 1978 for the opening of IBM Halt in Scotland and in the renaming of these two stations in 2008. The Liskeard and Looe Railway was opened on 27 December 1860 to carry goods traffic; passenger trains started on 11 September 1879. The railway in those days connected only with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway at Moorswater. The link from Coombe Junction to Liskeard railway station opened on 25 February 1901 and St Keyne station opened in October 1902. The single
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Crowle North railway station


Crowle North railway station, officially known as Crowle railway station, was a station in Crowle, Lincolnshire on the Axholme Joint Railway which is now closed. The North designation was used to avoid confusion with Crowle railway station on a neighbouring line. The station was opened on 10 August 1903. Originally it was the terminus of the line from , until the section onward to was opened for goods on 14 November 1904, and to passengers on 2 January 1905. The station closed with the end of passenger services on the line on
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Cockett railway station


Cockett station was a former station on the West Wales Line from Swansea to Gowerton and onwards to . The station was located on the west side of Swansea in the residential area of Cockett. The railway line between Landore and Carmarthen was opened on 11 October 1852 by the broad gauge South Wales Railway, which later became part of the Great Western Railway. The engineer of this line was Brunel. Originally, the first station westwards from Landore was at Loughor; Cockett and Gowerton stations were opened at later dates. Cockett station was
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King's Cliffe railway station


King's Cliffe railway station is a former railway station in King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire. It was owned by the London and North Western Railway, being situated on their line between and Peterborough, but from 1883 to 1916 was also served by trains of the Great Northern Railway. The station was opened on 1 November 1879 and closed to passengers on 6 June 1966. On that date the section from Rugby (Midland) to Kings Cliffe was closed completely, but the line east of Kings Cliffe station remained open for goods traffic
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Hexham railway station


Hexham railway station serves the town of Hexham in Northumberland, England. It is located on the Tyne Valley Line which runs from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, and is managed by Northern who operate all passenger train services. Dating from around 1835, Hexham station is one of the oldest purpose-built railway stations in the world. The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was formed in 1829, and was opened in stages. The first section of that line to open for passenger trains was between and Hexham, which was formally opened on
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Liverpool Overhead Railway


a mile north of Alexandra Dock station to the carriage sheds and workshops; no land closer to the station had been available. At the time of opening in February 1893, the railway had cost £510,000 and used a total of 25,000 tons of iron and steel. The first official journey on the railway took place on 7 January 1893, with the railway Chairman taking engineers and other people of importance on a tour of the length of the railway. The railway was officially opened on 4 February the same year by the Leader
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Longniddry railway station


Longniddry railway station is located at the southeast corner of the village of Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland. The station is on the East Coast Main Line, east of Edinburgh Waverley, and is served by stopping passenger trains on the North Berwick Line. The main line between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed was opened by the North British Railway on 22 June 1846, with Longniddry station and the branch line to Haddington opening on the same date. Longniddry's importance as a junction station increased in 1898 with the opening of
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St Pancras railway station


but has been overtaken by others since. The tube station pre-dated the mainline as part of the initial section of Metropolitan Railway project on 10 January 1863, which was the first section of the London Underground to open. The station expanded to accommodate St Pancras on opening, following by interchanges with the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (now the Piccadilly line) in 1906, with the City & South London Railway (now the Northern line) opening a year later. The Victoria line platforms were opened in 1968
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Eglinton Street railway station


Eglinton Street railway station was a railway station approximately one mile south of , in the Port Eglinton district of Glasgow. Sources published in the late 20th century claim that this station opened on Sunday 28 February 1909, which would have been highly unlikely given Scotland's sabbatarian culture at the time. Contemporary sources, such as railway notices, timetables, maps and Post Office Directories, show that the station existed nearly 30 years before that date. When the station opened, on 1 July 1879, it allowed Caledonian Railway trains from Edinburgh
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Castleknock railway station


Castleknock is a railway station that serves the suburban centres of Castleknock and Blanchardstown in Fingal, Ireland. It lies on the Dublin to Longford commuter route and is served by Western Commuter services from Pearse Station to and to M3 Parkway. The station is parallel to the Royal Canal near the 12th lock. It has two through platforms. It originally featured a portacabin booking office; however, a permanent station building was constructed (and the platforms lengthened) as part of the upgrade of the Western Commuter service in 2000. The ticket
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Theddingworth railway station


Theddingworth railway station was a railway station serving Theddingworth in the English county of  Leicestershire. It was opened on the Rugby and Stamford Railway in 1850. Parliamentary approval was gained in 1846 by the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from Rugby to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near Stamford. In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby to Market Harborough, which included Theddingworth, opened in 1850. Although the official opening was not till 1 May 1850,
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Machynlleth railway station


narrow gauge Corris Railway, which opened its station building on the north side of the main-line goods yard in 1859. This was later made accessible from the mainline station by a flight of steps from the standard gauge platform. Waggish porters were known to call out "Platform 14 for Corris" when greeting arriving passengers. The existing mainline station dates from 1863 with the opening of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. The following year the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway opened the line as far as via , and in 1867 the
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Enfield railway station (Ireland)


Enfield railway station serves the town of Enfield in County Meath, Ireland. It is a station on the Dublin Connolly to Longford commuter service and Dublin to Sligo Intercity Service. Passengers change at Maynooth to travel to stations on the Dublin to Maynooth and Dublin to M3 Parkway commuter services. A water tower exists at the Mullingar end of the station, still used by occasional steam trains. There is also a passing loop. Although no stations now exist between here and Mullingar, a passing loop remains in use at Killucan, between
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Central railway station, Sydney


hall spanning the up and down mainlines. Separate platforms and facilities were provided for arriving and departing passengers. The new station building appears to have taken three years to complete, the drawings are dated 1871, the official opening was in 1874. The second station, like the first, was constructed to allow for a future extension of the line into the city, the lines initially extending just far enough past the building to accommodate a steam locomotive. John Whitton, the Engineer-in-Chief designed a neo-classical station
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Makkasan railway station


Makkasan railway station is a railway station in Makkasan Subdistrict, Ratchathewi District, Bangkok. It is a class 1 railway station from Bangkok railway station. The station opened in January 1908 as part of the Eastern Line Bangkok-Chachoengsao Junction section. It is the location of the Makkasan Depot, which opened in 1897 when the railway started operations. Makkasan Depot was destroyed during the Second World War, and was rebuilt using loans from the World Bank. Despite not having official status as a junction, a freight-only branch line
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Keinton Mandeville railway station


Keinton Mandeville railway station was a small railway station situated on the Great Western Railway's Langport and Castle Cary Railway. It served the medium-sized village of Keinton Mandeville in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. The station opened on 1 July 1905, at the same time as Castle Cary and Charlton Mackrell. This was because the three stations were used collectively as a temporary branch before the railway opened officially as a whole the following year. Before its closure in 1962, the station had two platforms and there was
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Atlantic station (Staten Island Railway)


Atlantic was a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Tottenville, Staten Island, New York. With the condition of the station having deteriorated after the 1990s, this station, and the Nassau station to the north, were replaced by a new station at Arthur Kill Road. When that station opened in January 2017, Atlantic station was closed and subsequently demolished. The station's exact opening date is not certain, but it is known that the station opened between 1909 and 1911. The station was primarily built to serve the
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The Ultimate Fighter 4


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Port Glasgow railway station


Port Glasgow railway station is on the Inverclyde Line, serving the town of Port Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in the town centre with the main entrance at the junction of Princes Street and John Wood Street. It opened on 31 March 1841, being one of the intermediate stations on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway which opened on that date. It later became a junction in 1865, when the branch to was opened. The main line was then extended to in 1889 by the Caledonian Railway. The two lines
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Kelmscott and Langford railway station


Kelmscott and Langford railway station was a railway station south of the village of Langford on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway, between and . The station was opened on 4 November 1907 by the Great Western Railway, the only one to be opened on the line during peacetime by the Great Western. It was shown in early timetables as "Kelmscott and Langford Platform", which also appeared in the Official Handbook of Stations until 1949. It was supposed to serve the villages of Langford and Kelmscott but in reality was a considerable
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Pullabrook Halt railway station


Pullabrook Halt was a railway station opened in 1931 by the Great Western Railway to serve the hamlet of Pullabrook that lies between Bovey Tracey and Lustleigh in West Devon, England. Opened as Hawkmoor Halt after Hawkmoor Hospital, originally known as Hawkmoor County Sanatorium, a specialist hospital founded in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium. It was renamed Pullabrook Halt by the British Railways in 1955, a few years before closure. The halt was opened at a later date than most of the stations on the line which had itself opened in 1876
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Longford Railway Bridge


opened in 1871, on the railway line from Launceston to Deloraine. Constructed of a through Lattice truss, continuous over two spans of . These were the longest spans in an Australian bridge until 1880, when it was surpassed by the Fitzroy River suspension bridge at Rockhampton. From "The Cornwall Chronicle", April 23, 1870: "The Longford iron bridge has been constructed and erected under contract by Mr. C. de Borgue from designs prepared by the company's engineers, Messrs. Doyne, Major, and Willett. It is on
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