Thurles railway station serves the town of Thurles in County Tipperary in Ireland. The station is on the Dublin–Cork Main line, and is situated 86.5 miles (139.2 km) from Dublin Heuston.[1] It has two through platforms and one terminating platform.
An average of 17 trains each day between Dublin Heuston and Cork Kent serve Thurles station.[2]
The Great Southern and Western Railway opened the station on 13 March 1848.[3][1] The station was designed by Sancton Wood.[4]
On 5 August that year William Smith O'Brien was arrested on the station while waiting for a train after an unsuccessful insurrection in Ballingarry in South Tipperary.[1] There is a plaque at the station commemorating the event.
In 1880 the Southern Railway of Ireland opened between Thurles and Clonmel on the Waterford and Limerick Railway (W&LR), making Thurles a junction.[5] Following failure to pay a debt the Board of Works took over the line with operations handed to the W&LR until that was absorbed by the GS&WR in 1901.[5]
On 9 December 1921, Old IRA members were being released during the Irish War of Independence. As internees reached Thurles railway station, a bomb was thrown at the train. Vol. Declan Hurton was injured and later died of his wounds.[6][7]
CIÉ withdrew passenger services from the Thurles – Clonmel line in 1963 and closed the line to freight in 1967.
Thurles station has three times won the Irish Rail Best Intercity Station prize.[citation needed]
Local Link buses serve Thurles Railway Station.
391 Thurles to Limerick
850 Athlone to Thurles (Sundays only)
850 Portlaoise to Thurles
