An average of 17 trains each day between Dublin Heuston and Cork Kent serve Thurles station.

[4] On 5 August that year William Smith O'Brien was arrested on the station while waiting for a train after an unsuccessful insurrection in Ballingarry in South Tipperary.

[5] Following failure to pay a debt the Board of Works took over the line with operations handed to the W&LR until that was absorbed by the GS&WR in 1901.

As internees reached Thurles railway station, a bomb was thrown at the train.

[citation needed] Local Link buses serve Thurles Railway Station.