Mullingar Railway Station

Railway station in Westmeath, Ireland, dating from 1850–1860

Attached bow-fronted three-bay two-storey railway station, built c.1856 and altered c.1896, having multi-bay single-storey wings and platforms to the east. Main entrance to the northwest having a projecting open porch with a pitched slate roof supported on cut limestone Doric pillars. Hipped natural slate roof with wide overhanging bracketed eaves to main body of building. Hipped roofs supported on cast-iron pillars to platforms to the west and northwest having decorative pierced timber bargeboards. Constructed of ashlar limestone over projecting ashlar limestone plinth with extensive ashlar trim, including quoins to corners, a flush string course at first floor level and surrounds to openings. Square-headed window openings to main body of building with architraved surrounds, cut stone sills and replacement windows. Moulded entablatures over ground floor openings. Segmental and square-headed openings to platforms with shouldered cut limestone architraves and replacement windows. Shallow segmental-headed door openings having moulded cut limestone architraved surrounds with entablatures over and having glazed timber double doors. Pedestrian subways added c.1900, replacing earlier footbridges to site. Further platforms to the south (15310050) and to the northeast (15310043). Signal box located adjacent to the east (15310052). Located to the southwest side of Mullingar.

Type:
Railway station

Period:
1850–1860

Where:
Westmeath, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.52°N, 7.35°W

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