1846 – Carlow Railway Station, Co. Carlow
Architect: Sir John MacNeill
A good example of Jacobean Revival architecture, comprising a two storey central block and two single storey wings.
Great Southern and Western Railway
The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) operated from 1844 until 1924. At its peak the GS&WR had a 1,800 km network. The core of the GS&WR was the Dublin Kingsbridge – Cork main line with the company’s headquarters were at Kingsbridge (now Heuston) station.
An Act passed by the Dáil Éireann in 1924 merged the GS&WR with the Midland Great Western Railway, the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway and most other railways wholly within the Irish Free State to form the Great Southern Railway. In January 1925 the GSR merged with the Dublin and South Eastern Railway to form the Great Southern Railways.
1846 – Engine Shed, Irish Rail Works, Inchicore, Dublin
Architect: Sancton Wood
Inchicore Works is the headquarters for Mechanical Engineering and Rolling Stock maintenance in Irish Rail. Established in 1846,
1846 – Heuston Station, Dublin
Architect: Sancton Wood / Sir John MacNeill
Formerly Kingsbridge Station and one of Dublin’s original railway termini, Heuston Station was commissioned in 1846 from Sancton Wood,
1846 – Irish Rail Works, Inchicore, Dublin
Inchicore Works is the headquarters for Mechanical Engineering and Rolling Stock maintenance in Irish Rail. Established in 1846, it is the largest engineering complex of its kind in Ireland with a site area of 73 acres,
1846 – Railway Station, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin
A handsome Tudor Revival station building, typical of mid nineteenth-century railway architecture, and similar to the former Hazelhatch and Celbridge Station.
1846 – Railway Station, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Newbridge Railway Station was opened in 1846 by the Great Southern and Western Railway line reached the town. Newbridge was then an important military centre,
1847 – Old Railway Station, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
Architect: Captain William S. Moorsom & Sancton Wood
Designed by Captain William S. Moorsom and built a year later in a modified form by Sancton Wood,
1847 – Portlaoise Railway Station, Co. Laois
Architect: Sancton Wood
Originally a station on the Great Southern and Western Railway, Portlaoise Railway Station cost upwards of £5,000 to build.
1847 – Railway Station, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare
Architect: Sancton Wood
Fine picturesque railway station for the Great Southern by Sancton Wood. Wood designed many of the stations on the line below Kildare and before Limerick.
1849 – Monard Railway Viaduct, Co. Cork
Architect: William Dargan
Seven-arch limestone built viaduct, opened 1849, carrying Cork-Dublin railroad over Blarney River. Rock-faced rusticated piers, walls,
