Leixlip Louisa Bridge railway station

Leixlip Louisa Bridge
General information
Location	Leixlip Town Council
Managed by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	92
Key dates
1 September 1848	Station opens as Louisa Bridge and Leixlip
1851	Station renamed Leixlip
2 July 1990	Station renamed Leixlip Louisa Bridge
2000	Station upgraded

Leixlip Louisa Bridge is a railway station which serves Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland. Originally named Louisa Bridge & Leixlip when it opened on 1 September 1848 the station was known simply as Leixlip from 1851, until the opening of Leixlip Confey railway station in 1990. Both modern stations lie on the Dublin to Longford commuter route [1].

The station was upgraded to two platforms as part of the Western Commuter upgrade project in the early 2000s. At the same time it was reconstructed to be disability friendly. It is one of the very few stations in the Iarnród Éireann network in which the station building is located directly over the platforms, on a bridge (the modern Dun Laoghaire railway station also follows this design). A previous station building is now a dwelling house. The 1980s concrete block station building remains, albeit out of use, the only remaining station building of this style from the 1980s re-opening of the Western Commuter line.

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Western Commuter | style="background:#00A550; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 1px #aaa solid; border-right: 0px none; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"|Maynooth |- style="background: #eaecf0;" | style="border-left: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none;" |   | style="border-left: none; border-right: none; text-align: center; border-bottom: none;" colspan=3 | From 2015 | style="border-left: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none;" |   |- | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"| Leixlip Confey | style="background:#00bb00; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; border-left: 1px #aaa solid; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top:solid 1px #aaa; border-bottom:0px none;" | DART
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See also

• Rail transport in Ireland

External links

• Pictures of Leixlip Louisa Bridge
• Station information from iarnrodeireann.ie
• Eiretrains - Leixlip Station