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Each of the three power stations – [[West Offaly Power Station|West Offaly]] at Shannonbridge, Co Offaly; [[Edenderry Power Station|Edenderry]], Co Offaly; [[Lough Ree Power Station|Lough Ree]], Lanesborough, Co Longford – is the hub of an extensive rail network carrying heavy traffic. As an example, twelvetrains or ''rakes'' (locomotive and sixteen wagons) were in daily use sixteen hours a day at West Offaly in April 2009. Other, generally older locomotives, handle fuel trains, track trainloads of track, ash trains and permanent way gangs. {{asof|2012}} the Edenderry Power Station is deriving a lot of its fuel from woodchip and types of biomass and the amount of peat arriving by rail is diminishing.
The two [[briquette]] factories at Derrinlough, Co Offaly and Littleton, Co Tipperary each have rail connections to 6 or 8 working bogs. Between four and six peat trains work on each system, the trains almost always travelling in pairs as they do at the power stations.
Bord na Móna also operates several smaller bog railways delivering the peat to tipplers for transfer by road to factories and power stations.
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