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Train routes operated by Iarnród Éireann
13 routes · classic 12 · scenic 1
Iarnród Éireann runs 13 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 2,222 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the InterCity at 333 km; the fastest is the InterCity, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1848.
The company itself dates to 1987, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from Iarnród Éireann's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q73043 ↗
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- 13
- Total length
- 2,222 km
- Countries
- Ireland
- Fastest
- InterCity · 160 km/h
- Longest
- InterCity · 333 km
- Oldest line here
- 1848
- Company founded
- 1987
- Type
- railway company
Classic (12)
- InterCity
Ireland’s longest ride: off the Cork line at Mallow and west past Killarney’s lakes to Tralee — Kerry and the Atlantic at the end of the rails.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity
Heuston to Kent in 2 h 15 on Mark 4 push-pull sets, over the 1849 Great Southern and Western main line through Limerick Junction and Mallow.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity
Across the midland bogs and Mayo’s drumlin country to Clew Bay: Ireland’s western rails since 1866, with Croagh Patrick rising past the buffer stops.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity
The old Midland Great Western route from Dublin Connolly over the drumlin lakelands to Sligo, W. B. Yeats’s country beneath flat-topped Ben Bulben.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity
Iarnród Éireann’s diesel railcars strike west across the boggy Irish Midlands, crossing the Shannon at Athlone to the Atlantic city of Galway.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity
Leaves the Dublin–Cork main line at Limerick Junction, a curious station where trains long had to reverse, before the final run to the Shannon at Limerick.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity
Curves south-west from Dublin through medieval Kilkenny to Waterford, Ireland’s oldest city, founded by Vikings on the tidal River Suir.
Wikipedia ↗ - Limerick–Waterford
Ireland’s quiet cross-country line of 1854: a change of trains at Limerick Junction, then the Suir valley through Cahir and Clonmel to Waterford.
Wikipedia ↗ - Western Rail Corridor
The Western Rail Corridor, reopened in 2010 after 34 years: north from Limerick through Ennis and the stone-walled edge of the Burren to Galway Bay, west of the Shannon the whole way and never near Dublin.
Wikipedia ↗ - Limerick–Ballybrophy
The Nenagh branch, joined up in 1864: along the Shannon past Castleconnell’s rapids, then North Tipperary farmland through Nenagh and Roscrea to the mainline junction at Ballybrophy. Two through trains a day.
Wikipedia ↗ - DART
Ireland’s only electrified railway, running around Dublin Bay from the Howth peninsula past Killiney’s Irish Riviera to Greystones since 1984.
Wikipedia ↗ - Ballina Branch
Mayo’s surviving branch: half an hour down the Moy valley from Ballina to Manulla Junction, meeting the Dublin trains on the Westport line.
Wikipedia ↗
Scenic (1)
- Dublin–Rosslare
DART territory then the wild bit: Killiney bay, Wicklow’s cliff ledge above the sea, Wexford’s quays, and the Europort at the end.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Iarnród Éireann run?
13 of the routes in this atlas are Iarnród Éireann services, covering 2,222 km across 1 country (Ireland). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Iarnród Éireann train?
The InterCity, Dublin to Tralee, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 3 h 55 min over 333 km.
Does Iarnród Éireann run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 13 Iarnród Éireann routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Iarnród Éireann founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1987, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1848 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Iarnród Éireann runs in
- 🇮🇪 Train routes in Ireland 15 routes