Docklands railway station

Docklands Station (Stáisiún Dugthailte) is a terminus railway station serving the Dublin Docklands area in Ireland. It is owned and operated by Iarnród Éireann and was part of the Irish Government's Transport 21 initiative.

Docklands

Dugthailte
Iarnród Éireann
The station building as seen from Sheriff St, 23 March 2007.
General information
LocationSheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 XK74
Ireland
Coordinates53.350628°N 6.239355°W / 53.350628; -6.239355
Owned byIarnród Éireann
Operated byIarnród Éireann
Platforms1 (Island)
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Other information
Station codeDCKLS
Fare zoneSuburban 1
Key dates
12 March 2007Station opens
Passengers
20181,500 daily[1]

The station is one of three termini for the Western Commuter service run by Iarnród Éireann, the others being Dublin Connolly and Dublin Pearse.

Services
Western Commuter
Dublin–Sligo Line
 Longford
 Edgeworthstown
 Mullingar
 Enfield
 Kilcock
 Maynooth
 Leixlip Louisa Bridge
 Leixlip Confey
 M3 Parkway
 Dunboyne
 Hansfield (serves Ongar)
Clonsilla
 Coolmine
 Castleknock
 Navan Road Parkway
 Ashtown
 Pelletstown
 Broombridge
Luas
to Liffey Junction
& Dublin Broadstone
(
closed
1937
)
The Royal Canal
Phoenix Park Tunnel
to Dublin Heuston
Drumcondra
Docklands
(Luas Spencer Dock)
The Royal Canal
 Dublin Connolly Luas
Luas Red Line
to Tallaght or Saggart
Loopline Bridge
 Tara Street
 Dublin Pearse

Services run to M3 Parkway during peak times, Monday to Friday. The station is closed on Saturday and Sunday. Passengers need to change at Clonsilla for connection with the Maynooth service.

The Luas Red Line does not directly connect with Docklands Station. Instead, commuters have to walk approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) via an indirect route to Spencer Dock Luas stop or to Mayor Square - NCI Luas stop. The Luas line gives a direct connection to Busáras Bus station and Dublin Heuston.

The station is linked to the city centre by Dublin Bus route 151.[2]

History

The station was officially opened for commuter services by then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at a temporary location on Sheriff Street in the North Wall area of Dublin's Northside on 12 March 2007,[3] construction groundbreaking having taken place on 9 March 2006[4] with Transport Minister Martin Cullen. It is the first new heavy rail station in Dublin city centre since Grand Canal Dock opened in 2001. It was required because the nearby Connolly Station had reached capacity and could not support additional commuter services to County Meath.

However, in March 2008, it was reported that the transport minister, Noel Dempsey, would allow CIÉ to seek new planning permission to keep the station on a permanent basis as a terminus for services from Maynooth and Navan following his decision to allow the Railway Procurement Agency to use Broadstone Station for extensions to the Luas.[5]

Proposals

The station was to move to a permanent location in the Spencer Dock site as part of the DART Underground plan under the government's Transport 21 initiative. Planning conditions attached to the temporary site stated that it had to be removed by May 2016,[6] but permanent permission was obtained in time to avoid this.[7]

Though the DART Underground plans were postponed indefinitely, as of August 2021, an underground station at Spencer Dock was proposed as part of the DART+ West project.[8][9]

See also

References
  1. "Ireland's newest train station could move because of major shortfall in passengers". independent.ie. Independent News & Media. 17 May 2018. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. http://www/dublinbus.ie%5B%5D
  3. "RTÉ News: New railway station opens in Dublin city". RTÉ.ie. 12 March 2007. Archived from the original on 14 March 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2007.
  4. IOL (March 9, 2006). Cullen turns sod on new Dublin city railway station. Retrieved March 9, 2006.
  5. Dempsey derails ambitious CIÉ plan and opts for new Luas line Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine Irish Times, 06/02/08
  6. "Transport 21 - the truth". Archived from the original on 28 October 2006. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 April 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=3924/15&SearchID=1
  8. McCullagh, Tony (3 August 2021). "New underground station proposed for Spencer Dock under Dart expansion plans". Irish Independent. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  9. Butler, Roisin (25 July 2022). "New DART lines likely to commence construction in 2024". DublinLive. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
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