| / /1846 | Grand Leinster and Munster Railway
Wexford, Carlow and Dublin Junction Railway
Merged to become Irish South Eastern Railway. |
| 24/07/1848 | Irish South Eastern Railway
Opened from Carlow to Bagenalstown. |
| 12/11/1850 | Irish South Eastern Railway
Extended from Bagenalstown to Kilkenny, the Wicklow and Kilkenny Railway laying an additional track alongside its route from Lavistown to Kilkenny. |
| 31/12/1855 | Railway Clearing House
By this date, Cork and Bandon Railway, Crieff Junction Railway, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, Dublin and Drogheda Railway, Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, Furness Railway, Great Southern and Western Railway, Irish South Eastern Railway, Killarney Junction Railway, Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, Leven Railway, London and South Western Railway, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Monkland Railways, Monmouthshire Railway and Canal, Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Norfolk Railway, North and South Western Junction Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Peebles Railway, Perth and Dunkeld Railway, Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, St Andrews Railway, Ulster and Dundalk Railway, Waterford and Kilkenny Railway and Waterford and Limerick Railway join. |
| / /1863 | Irish South Eastern Railway
Absorbed by the Great Southern and Western Railway. |
| / /1864 | Bagenalstown and Wexford Railway
With the supporting Irish South Eastern Railway being absorbed by the Great Southern and Western Railway, and the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway un-supportive, the line closes. |
The 1828 to Waterford runs into Kilkenny station behind IE 212 on 17 May 2008. The locomotive will run round here before setting off on the final leg ...
The current station at Kilkenny, fashioned from the former goods shed, seen on 17 May 2008. 
Remains of the old through station at Kilkenny in May 2008 - the line, which is now lifted, formerly continued to Maryborough on the main line from ...
