Dundalk railway station (Dundalk (Dún Dealgan))

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The station opened on 15 February 1849 as Dundalk Junction (being located at the Junction of the Dublin-Belfast line and the Dundalk and Enniskillen line), becoming Dundalk Station in June 1894.[1] It was given the name Clarke on 10 April 1966 in commemoration of Tom Clarke, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.[2] In 2004 Clarke station was re designated Dundalk International Train Depot due to the fact that it links Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. However, this unique status was never implemented into official designation and is still termed Clarke Station by Iarnrod Eireann. It was officially opened by the then Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Aherne, a native of Dundalk, on 6 May 2004.