Classic route
Western Rail Corridor
Limerick → Galway · Ireland
- Distance
- 118 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h
- Average speed
- 59 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Iarnród Éireann
- Train
- Class 2800 railcar
- Countries
- Ireland
- In service since
- 1869
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1856407 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 782
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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