Westport railway station (Ireland)

53°47′44″N 9°30′32″W / 53.7955°N 9.50885°W / 53.7955; -9.50885Owned byIarnród ÉireannOperated byIarnród ÉireannPlatforms2ConstructionStructure typeAt-gradeOther informationStation codeWPORTFare zonePKey dates28 January 1866Station opened

v t e Dublin to Galway/Westport
Legend
Year closed Phoenix Park Tunnel to Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Dublin Connolly & The Point Dublin Heuston Luas Red Line to Tallaght & Saggart Inchicore Works Park West and Cherry Orchard Clondalkin/Fonthill Kishoge Adamstown Hazelhatch and Celbridge Straffan 1947 Sallins and Naas Newbridge Kildare Dublin–Waterford line Monasterevin Portarlington Dublin to Cork line Tullamore Horseleap Branch to Mullingar 1964 Clara Athlone Ballinasloe Woodlawn Attymon Western Railway Corridor to Limerick Athenry Oranmore Galway Roscommon Castlerea Ballyhaunis Claremorris to Collooney Manulla Junction Exchange only Foxford Ballina Castlebar Westport to Achill 1937 Westport Quay 1978

Westport railway station serves the town of Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

The station is the terminus station on the Dublin to Westport Rail service. Passengers to or from Galway must travel to Athlone and change trains. Passengers to or from Ballina and Foxford must travel to Manulla Junction and change trains.^[1]

The station was opened as Westport Town on 28 January 1866 by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR). A branch line to Achill was opened in February 1894 as far as Newport and in May 1895 in its full length, but was already closed on 1 October 1937. Regular freight traffic to Westport ceased on 6 September 1976. An extension of the line from Dublin to Westport Quay was opened by the MGWR in 1875.^[2] It closed to regular passenger traffic in 1912 and to regular freight traffic in 1941, but was used by occasional goods trains until 1977 before being finally closed in 1978. It was dismantled about ten years later, with the Quay station obliterated under a new housing development. Most of the route to the town remains as a cycleway.

The typical current service pattern is:^[3]

• 5 trains per day to Dublin Heuston

Preceding station	Iarnród Éireann			Following station
Castlebar		Intercity Dublin–Westport/Galway railway line		Terminus