Editing Moate (section)

==Transport==

===Bus===
[[Bus Éireann]] and [[Irish Citylink]] operate [[Dublin]]–[[Galway]] bus routes that service Moate.<ref>[http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1314893562-20.pdf Bus timetable: Dublin (and airport)–Galway route] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025063128/http://buseireann.ie/pdf/1314893562-20.pdf |date=2012-10-25 }} Bus Éireann. Retrieved: 2012-12-30.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://citylink.ie/images/citylink-dublin-commuter-for-web.pdf |title=Bus timetable: Dublin (and airport)–Galway route |work=City Link |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/10702/20121219151651/http://citylink.ie/images/citylink-dublin-commuter-for-web.pdf |archive-date=2012-12-19 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Rail===
The disused [[Moate railway station]] was built by the [[Midland Great Western Railway]] to connect Dublin and Galway and opened on 1 August 1851. It closed for goods traffic on 2 December 1974, and closed for passenger traffic on 27 January 1987.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Moate station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=2007-11-04 | archive-date=2 March 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302022802/http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> Parts of the film ''[[The First Great Train Robbery]]'' (1979)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079240/locations Filming locations for The Great Train Robbery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307200236/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079240/locations |date=7 March 2016 }} Internet Movie Database. Retrieved: 2012-12-30.</ref> were filmed on the local railway. The crew of about 150 actors, extras, and production team, spent around two weeks in and around Moate filming. The cast of the movie stayed at the Royal Hoey Hotel during this time.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McCormack|first=Stan|date=2020-08-13|title=When the movies came to town|url=https://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2020/08/13/when-the-movies-came-to-town/|access-date=2022-07-19|website=[[Westmeath Examiner]]|language=en}}</ref> The train station depicted as "Ashford" is actually Moate Station.

===Dublin to Galway Cycleway===
The Mullingar (West) to Garrycastle (Athlone East) section of the [[Dublin-Galway Greenway]] (cycleway) was opened on 3 October 2015 by the [[Taoiseach]] [[Enda Kenny]] in Moate.<ref>[http://www.galwaytodublincycleway.ie/#!mullingar-to-garrycastle-athlone/cdtz Mullingar to Garrycastle Cycleway opening] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531205413/http://www.galwaytodublincycleway.ie/#!mullingar-to-garrycastle-athlone/cdtz |date=31 May 2016 }} - Galway to Dublin Cycleway website, October 2015.</ref>  The cycleway links Moate to Athlone and Mullingar on a 3m wide 40&nbsp;km long cycleway.