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Ennis in Co.Clare, on the Limerick to Athenry and Claremorris line, was once also the junction for the 1887/95 narrow gauge West Clare Railway, which ran from Ennis to Kilkee and Kilrush on the Shannon Estuary. Despite modernisation, the West Clare line was closed in 1961 by CIE, and was the last surviving narrow gauge line in the country. The line through Ennis had originally opened in 1859 and was first worked by the Waterford Limerick & Western Railway. Ennis Station itself lost it's passenger services from Limerick to Claremorris in 1976, but a Limerick passenger service was re-instated in 1994. The line north of Ennis to Athenry and Claremorris remained in use for freight traffic until the late 1990s, the same time Ennis itself lost its Limerick freight liner train. Today, the line north of Ennis to Claremorris is now part of the Western Rail Corridor and is due to reopen in 2009. |
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