Wellington Bridge
Facilities
The village has a wide array of facilities and amenities including a department store, pharmacy, supermarket, garden centre, café, beauty salon, pub/restaurant, opticians, vet, hair salon, furniture shop, barbers, filling station, car dealer, and playground.
Transport
Rail
The village was on the Limerick-Rosslare railway line: Wellingtonbridge railway station, which was formerly an important point for the loading of sugar beet, opened on 1 August 1906 and closed on 18 September 2010.
Bus
The rail service was replaced by a revised Bus Éireann route 370 service from Monday 20 September 2010. It is also served by Local Link route 388 as well as once-weekly Bus Éireann routes 372 and 373.
Ardcavan, a County Wexford-based bus company provided a daily service from Wellingtonbridge to Dublin and Dublin Airport for many years though this route was discontinued in 2018.
Notable people
- Mick Wallace, businessman and politician
See also
References
- ^ "Droichead Eoin/Wellingtonbridge". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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- ^ "Timetable – Route 370" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ "Timetable – Route 371" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ^ "Ardcavan Dublin September 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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