Railway Union put Loreto’s potential title celebrations on hold as they produced a remarkable 4-0 win over their title rivals in Ireland’s EY Hockey League.

A win for Loreto would have secured them the regular season title with three games left on their agenda.

But reigning champions Railway picked off one of the biggest results of their season, kickstarted by a Róisín Upton drag-flick in the first quarter.

Lily Lloyd picked out the top corner with a reverse-stick shot early in Q2 and they pulled further away in the second half courtesy of a Niamh Gowing strike and another from Niamh Shaw.

The win sees Railway reduce the gap to two points to Loreto although they have played a game extra played.

For Loreto, they have still to play Catholic Institute and UCC before closing out the season on April 12 against Old Alex in the final round of the competition which brings one European spot in Ireland.

Railway will be hoping for them to slip-up on that run a couple of times while landing wins over UCD and Pegasus ahead of their EHL debut at Easter.