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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 91 kilometres (57 mi) from Sligo and 122 kilometres (76 mi) from Dublin. Journeys to the capital by rail generally take about an hour and three quarters.
The Dublin–Sligo railway 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 a double-track railway as far as Maynooth , being a single-track railway with passing loops between there and Sligo.
The line was extended to Hill of Down by the end of 1847 and to Mullingar in October 1848. In 1877, a branch line from Nesbitt Junction (about 2 km (1.2 mi) west of Enfield) to Edenderry was opened. The Edenderry branch line and Enfield station closed in 1963, although there had been no regular passenger service to Edenderry since 1931. [4]
In 2008 Bus Éireann stated that they also intended to develop similar services to the 24-hour Dublin-Belfast route on the following routes: Donegal-Dublin, Ballina-Dublin, Sligo-Dublin and Drogheda-Balbriggan-Dublin Airport-Dublin. [4] Due to the post-2008 economic downturn in Ireland these plans were never realised. On 20 January 2009, Bus ...
The Sligo Intercity trains operate on a bi-hourly schedule on weekdays, providing connectivity to all stations en route to Sligo, excluding Leixlip Louisa Bridge. Connolly-Longford trains run approximately every 2–3 hours, while Maynooth services operate every 20–30 minutes.
The ticket office is open from 06:00 AM to 23:15 PM, Monday to Sunday. The footbridge crossing the tracks and connecting the two platforms was originally situated at Lansdowne Road railway station. [2] From Maynooth onwards to Sligo, the line is a single-track railway, the line being a double-track railway from Maynooth to Bray.
The station opened on 3 December 1862, when the Midland Great Western Railway extended their Longford branch to Sligo, adding rail links to the town from Dublin.The Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway linked to Enniskillen to the north in 1881 and the Waterford and Limerick Railway (later the Great Southern and Western Railway) followed with a link to Limerick and the south in 1895.
This line is connected directly with the rest of the network, despite being operated out of the Dublin Heuston terminus, by the Phoenix Park Tunnel, the Luas and Dublin Bus routes 145, C1, C2, C3, C4 and the 46a which operate to within a short walk of Tara Street. In 2013, due to increased demand from commuters in the North East Laois commuter ...