Shankill railway station (DW&WR)

Shankill railway station was a station on the Harcourt Street railway line.

This article is about the station built in 1854 by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway. For the 1977 station on the DART line, see Shankill railway station.

Shankill

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Iarnród Éireann
Shankill DW&WR Station as redeveloped after closure, to rear of modern office addition
General information
LocationStation Road, Shankill, Dublin 18, D18 XY38
Ireland
Coordinates53.234°N 6.127°W / 53.234; -6.127
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
History
Original companyDublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
Pre-groupingDublin and South Eastern Railway
Post-groupingGreat Southern Railways
Key dates
10 July 1854Station opens
31 December 1958Station closed
Services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Carrickmines
Line and station closed		   Dublin and South Eastern Railway
Dublin-Bray		   Bray or
Woodbrook Halt
Line and station closed

History

Shankill was opened by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR) on 10 July 1854 as part of the Harcourt Street line, initially Dundrum to Bray.[1] It is situated on Station Road some 650 metres south-west of the current Shankill station. The next station to the south was Woodbrook Halt while to the north lay the Bride's Glen Viaduct and beyond that Carrickmines station.

It has been noted the fastest timetabled run on the DW&WR in the 1880s was the 5.10 pm from Harcourt Street which was scheduled to achieve the 9+3⁄4 miles (15.7 km) to Shankill in 20 minutes at a rate of 29+1⁄4 miles per hour (47.1 km/h)[2]

Closure

The Harcourt Street line had declined in use throughout the early 20th century and was becoming rundown in the 1940s and 50s. While Dundrum and Shankill were still pretty busy at peak times, they weren’t braking even enough to justify the line's existence. The station closed by CIÉ with the closure of the whole line from Harcourt Street on 31 December 1958, much to uproar from the community.

The station building remains and facade was covered up during construction of the Shankill Business Centre during the 1970s. A new Shankill station was opened in 1977 at Corbawn Lane on the Coastal Line from Pearse to Bray.

  • Bride's glen viaduct to the north of the station
    Bride's glen viaduct to the north of the station

See also

References
  1. "Shankill". Eiretrains. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. Ahrons, E. L. (1954). L. L. Asher (ed.). Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Vol. six. W Heffer & Sons Ltd. p. 44.
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