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Abbeyleix railway station served the town of
Abbeyleix Abbeyleix (; ) is a town in County Laois, Ireland, located around south of the county town of Portlaoise. Abbelyleix is in a civil parish of the same name. Abbeyleix was formerly located on the N8, the main road from Dublin to Cork. At one p ...
in
County Laois County Laois ( ; ) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medieval kingdom. Hist ...
,
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. The station opened on 1 March 1865. Passenger services were withdrawn on 1 January 1963 by the
CIÉ , or CIÉ, is a statutory corporation of Ireland, answerable to the Irish Government and responsible for most public transport within the Republic of Ireland and jointly with its Northern Ireland counterpart, the Northern Ireland Transport Hold ...
.


History

Opened by the Kilkenny Junction Railway, by the beginning of the 20th century the station was run by the
Great Southern and Western Railway The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) was an Irish gauge () railway company in Ireland from 1844 until 1924. The grew by building lines and making a series of takeovers, until in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was the larges ...
. It was absorbed into the
Great Southern Railways The Great Southern Railways Company (often Great Southern Railways, or GSR) was an Ireland, Irish company that from 1925 until 1945 owned and operated all railways that lay wholly within the Irish Free State (the present-day Republic of Irelan ...
in 1925. The station was then nationalised, passing on to the Córas Iompair Éireann as a result of the Transport Act, 1944 which took effect from 1 January 1945. It was closed in 1963. The clock which was in the waiting room at the station and a working scale model of the station can be seen at Heritage House, Abbeyleix.


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Heritage House, Abbeyleix (Museum)
Disused railway stations in County Laois Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1865 {{Ireland-railstation-stub Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland closed in 1963