Dublins first new train station in 116 years

Daragh | March 12, 2007

People often wonder why Dublin’s traffic is so bad. Usually, and rightly so, it’s blamed on the city’s completely inadequate public transport network. As an illustration of this, Dublin today received it’s first new train station in 116 years!! Yep, you heard that one right, it’s one hundred and sixteen years since Tara Street Station opened its doors. Ok ok, there have been various DART stations opened up through the years, but, we’re talking main line stations here.

But enough history, today saw the opening of the new Docklands Station in the IFSC. The new station serves commuters from Clonsilla, Coolmine, Castleknock, Ashtown and Broombridge, and has allowed for an additional four trains each direction per day already. Amazingly, Iarnród Éireann claim that this gives them a service frequency of about 10 minutes from West Dublin to the city centre between the hours of 07:10 and 09:00. It will be interesting to hear tales of whether or not this becomes reality for people along this route.

Also, to tie in with this, Dublin Bus are offering a range of services to and from Docklands Station. The new 151 route and new feeder bus 93 route will be available for Docklands Station commuters.

More details on all services can be found on the Irish Rail Website and the Dublin Bus Website

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2 Responses to “Dublins first new train station in 116 years”

  1. Dervla says:
    March 13, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    Great story this:

    PATRICK McCarthy loves Dublin – so much so that in his 77 years he has never left the capital.

    He has, however, travelled along the DART line.

    This summer, however, Mr McCarthy, who was born on Thomas Street in 1930, will venture further afield. The Docklands train station opened yesterday is just a ten-minute walk from his home on Oriel Street.

    Rest of the story here .

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