Carrick-on-Shannon Railway Station — Report the wrong picture

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The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. This attractive station building is typical of the finely-built structures associated with the nineteenth-century heyday of railway travel and transport in Leitrim and Roscommon.

Detached four-bay two-storey railway station building, built c.1860 by the Midland Great Western Railway as part of the Longford to Sligo line. Station abuts single-storey parcel office to north-west. Canopy to rear shelters platform waiting area. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and oversailing eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed limestone walls. Tooled limestone quoins, opening surrounds and plinth. Timber sash and replacement segmental-headed windows with stone sills. Segmental-headed entrance with replacement glazed timber with fanlight and sidelights.

This attractive station building is typical of the finely-built structures associated with the nineteenth-century heyday of railway travel and transport in Leitrim and Roscommon.

This attractive station building is typical of the finely-built structures associated with the nineteenth-century heyday of railway travel and transport in Leitrim and Roscommon. Its pleasant exterior is the focal point of this well-maintained station. The canopied waiting area enhances the platform onto which it fronts.

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This attractive station building is typical of the finely-built structures associated with the nineteenth-century heyday of railway travel and transport in Leitrim and Roscommon.

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