| / /1845 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Incorporated. |
| 12/05/1848 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Kilkenny to Thomastown opened. |
| 29/05/1850 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Extended from Thomastown to Jerpoint Hill (temporary terminus). |
| 23/08/1853 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Extended from Jerpoint Hill to Dunkitt [W and KR] (temporary station short of Waterford). |
| 11/09/1854 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Waterford and Limerick Railway
Extended from Dunkitt [W and KR] and Dunkitt [W and LR] to Waterford [Newrath], a terminus for Waterford on the north bank of the River Suir. A free ferry connected the terminus to Waterford (until opposed by the Bridge Commissioners). The lines met at Newrath Junction, a single track continuing to the terminus (replaced by two parallel single lines as traffic increased). |
| 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. |
| 08/01/1861 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Worked by the Waterford and Limerick Railway. |
| 28/06/1864 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Waterford and Limerick Railway
Extended from Waterford [Newrath] to Waterford North. |
| 01/06/1867 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Ceased to be worked by the Waterford and Limerick Railway. |
| 01/10/1867 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Takes over its own working and ceases using Waterford North due to access charges, changing to first Waterford [Newrath] (and then a new temporary station Newrath Common when the Waterford and Limerick Railway objected). |
| 01/04/1868 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Returns to using Waterford [Newrath]. |
| 13/07/1868 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Renamed Waterford and Central Ireland Railway. |
| 01/07/1869 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Returns to using Waterford North with the resolution of the 'Battle of Newrath'. |
| / /1883 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Waterford and Limerick Railway
Doubled from Waterford North to Fiddown. Junction laid in again at Newrath Junction. |
| / /1929 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Waterford and Limerick Railway
Newrath Junction taken out, two single parallel lines run east to Suir Bridge Junction |
| 09/06/1979 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Great Southern and Western Railway
The two parallel lines from Lavistown into Kilkenny become one when Lavistown Junction is laid in. |
| / /1994 | Waterford and Kilkenny Railway
Great Southern and Western Railway
North to south curve laid in making Lavistown Junction a triangular junction |
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 ...
