Dún Laoghaire railway station

Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) railway station (Irish: Dún Laoghaire Í Mhealláin) is a station in Dún Laoghaire, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

Dún Laoghaire Mallin Dún Laoghaire Í Mhealláin
Dún Laoghaire Mallin with Royal Irish Yacht Club building to rear in 2014
General information
Location	Crofton Road, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, A96 N7C6 Ireland
Coordinates	53°17′42″N 6°08′04″W / 53.2949°N 6.1345°W / 53.2949; -6.1345Coordinates: 53°17′42″N 6°08′04″W / 53.2949°N 6.1345°W / 53.2949; -6.1345
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	3
Tracks	2
Bus routes	45A, 45B, 46A. 59, 63, 75, 75A, 111.
Bus operators	Dublin Bus Go-Ahead Ireland
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Architect	John Skipton Mulvany
Other information
Station code	DLERY
Fare zone	Suburban 2
History
Original company	Dublin and Kingstown Railway
Pre-grouping	Dublin and South Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	Great Southern Railways
Key dates
1837	Station opens as Kingstown Harbour
1861	Station renamed Kingstown
1921	Station renamed Dún Laoghaire
1966	Station renamed Dún Laoghaire Mallin
1971	Original station entrance closed
1983	Station upgraded
1997	Current station entrance built
Services Preceding station   Iarnród Éireann   Following station Blackrock or Dublin Pearse   InterCity Dublin-Rosslare   Bray Daly Blackrock   Commuter Northern Commuter Peak times only   Bray Daly   Commuter Western Commuter Peak times only     Commuter South Eastern Commuter   Salthill & Monkstown   DART Trans-Dublin   Sandycove & Glasthule or Terminus   Historical railways   Salthill   Dublin and Kingstown Railway   Terminus Terminus   Dalkey Atmospheric Railway   Dalkey

Services

v t e Dublin to Rosslare
Legend
Year closed   Dublin–Belfast Main Line     Dublin–Sligo Main Line         Dublin Connolly for   Dublin Airport         Luas Red Line     R. Liffey   Tara Street   Dublin Pearse for   Dublin Airport     Grand Canal Street railway works   Grand Canal Dock       Grand Canal Gasworks   Lansdowne Road   Lansdowne Road       Ballsbridge Showground Passengers 1941 Goods 1971   Serpentine Avenue   Sandymount     Sandymount   Sydney Parade   Sydney Parade     Merrion Gates   Merrion 1934   Booterstown     Williamstown 1841   Blackrock     Seapoint     Salthill and Monkstown     Kingstown Harbour (west pier) 1837   Dún Laoghaire Mallin       Carlisle Pier 1980   Sandycove Cutting   Sandycove and Glasthule     Glenageary     Dalkey (Atmospheric) 1854   Dalkey     Killiney Hill Tunnel   Obelisk Hill 1858   Killiney   moved 1882   Ballybrack 1863 1882   Shankill     MP 11 (to Pearse)     Shanganagh Junct., to Harcourt St. 1958   MP 11 (to Harcourt St.)   Woodbrook Halt 1960   County Dublin County Wicklow   Bray   Bray Daly     Bray Cove Halt 1929   Bray Head Tunnel No.1   Bray Head Tunnel No.2   Bray Head Tunnel No.3   Bray Head Tunnel No.4   Greystones   Kilcoole   Newcastle 1964     Wicklow Murrough 1976   R. Vartry   Wicklow   Rathnew 1964   M11 motorway   Glenealy 1964   Rathdrum         Avoca 1964   Woodenbridge Junction 1964     Shillelagh branch line 1945   Glenart platform 1925   (private halt for Earl Carysfort)   M11 motorway   Arklow   M11 motorway   County Wicklow County Wexford   Inch 1963   Gorey   M11 motorway   Camolin 1963   Ferns 1977   Enniscorthy   R. Slaney   Enniscorthy Tunnel   Edermine Ferry 1963     Waterford line 1963   Macmine Junction 1963   Killurin 1963   Killurin Tunnel   Ferrycarrig Tunnel   Wexford (Carcur) 1872   Wexford   Wexford South 1977   Felthouse Junction 1910     Limerick-Rosslare Line 2010   Rosslare Strand   Kilrane 1963     Rosslare Europort

v t e South Eastern Commuter
Legend
Dublin Connolly         Luas Red Line to Tallaght or Saggart   Loopline Bridge   Tara Street   Dublin Pearse   Grand Canal Dock     Lansdowne Road   Sandymount     Sydney Parade   Booterstown     Blackrock   Seapoint     Salthill and Monkstown     Dun Laoghaire Mallin     Sandycove and Glasthule     Glenageary     Dalkey     Killiney     Shankill     Woodbrook   (planned)   Bray Daly   Greystones   Kilcoole   Wicklow   Rathdrum   Arklow   Gorey   Dublin–Rosslare Line

v t e Dublin Area Rapid Transit
Legend
Malahide     Portmarnock   Clongriffin     Howth     Sutton       Bayside     Howth Junction & Donaghmede   Kilbarrack   Raheny   Harmonstown     Killester   Clontarf Road         Fairview Depot       River Tolka     Western Commuter & Sligo Line       Docklands     The Royal Canal     Dublin Connolly             to Dublin Heuston     Luas Red Line to The Point   Loopline Bridge over River Liffey   Tara Street     Dublin Pearse   Grand Canal Dock   Lansdowne Road   Sandymount   Sydney Parade     Booterstown   Blackrock     Seapoint   Salthill and Monkstown   Dún Laoghaire Mallin     Sandycove and Glasthule   Glenageary   Dalkey   Killiney   Shankill   Woodbrook (planned)   Bray Daly     Greystones

Dún Laoghaire has two through platforms and one terminal platform. Unusually, the station building is on a bridge above the platforms, in a setup similar to Leixlip Louisa Bridge railway station. The station has a ticket office, automatic ticket machines and a small coffee shop. The ticket office is open between 05:45-00:06 AM, Monday to Sunday.

DART

From the inception of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) service in 1984, all DART services stop at Dún Laoghaire.

Other services

Dún Laoghaire is on the intercity Dublin-Rosslare and commuter Dundalk-Dublin-Arklow-Gorey routes and all trains on these routes stop here. They often run non-stop between Dun Laoghaire and Dublin Pearse, and freight and maintenance trains pass through Dún Laoghaire without stopping.

History

The original station for Dún Laoghaire, then known as Kingstown, was situated some 0.5 miles (0.80 km) closer to Dublin at the West Pier near to or at the present-day Salthill and Monkstown railway station. That station was the southern terminus of the first railway in Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR), which opened in 1834.^[1] For the first public timetable the station was named Kingstown but in contract documents it was at least sometimes referred to as Dunleary.^[2]

Before the D&KR had even begun to be built it became apparent that the Packet boats were to use either the East Pier or the new wharf being built. Therefore, in 1833 the D&KR raised a parliamentary bill so its railway could be extended beyond the East Pier with a new station at Kingstown then on to Dalkey.^[a] Mobilised opposition from a rival canal group and local opposition caused the Bill to fail in June 1833.^[3]

The D&KR regrouped and with lobbying presented a less ambitious Bill to the site of the current station only in 1834. Thomas M. Gresham, a D&KR shareholder and main spokesperson for the opposition, being awarded a silver plate in August 1833 for the same at a personal cost of £1,200, was persuaded not to oppose the 1834 bill. Other obstacles including an agreement to cross the old part of Dunleary harbour and demolition of a Martello fortification needed an agreement with the Admiralty and Ordnance. The Bill was passed in May 1834 but logistics meant Dargan began work in May 1836 finishing about a year later. The new terminus opened on 13 May 1837, the first train being a special with D&KR directors and friends.^[4][b]

The original station building was an apparently insufficient Station House and Parcel Office and in 1840 the D&KR resolved to replace it.^[5][c] The platforms were finally covered in 1845 by a temporary structure costing £122 which was later extended for £300.^[6]

On 29 March 1844, the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway officially opened. The line was a branch of the existing D&KR which diverged to the south when approaching from the west with an interchange platform^[d] before the atmospheric ran as a single track eastbound into the tunnel. While through running was possible it was not used.^[7]

Grierson notes that the station build was completed in 1853 to a design by John Skipton Mulvany by Mr. Roberts doing the "masonry, carpentry, ironmongery, &c," for £1,665. This included the station walls,^[e] while ironwork, roof, and plumbing cost £1,031 by I. & R. Mallet.^[8] The roof has since been removed.^[9] The station house above the platforms was completed in 1854.^[10] a structure in a neo-classical style, designed also by Mulvany.^[5] This was the station building until 1971 when the current arrangement was introduced. Mulvany's building became reused as a restaurant.^[f]

The Dalkey Atmospheric ceased operation in 1854. The Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway exercised their rights and rebuilt the Dalkey to Kingstown section as a conventional railway at 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) removing height restrictions. When they ran their first train into Kingstown on 10 October 1855, the D&KR directors refused them the use of the station and the passengers were forced to return towards Dalkey, this also happening for some days afterwards.^[11] On 30 March 1856, both the D&KR and D&WR concurred with the D&KR's engineer D. B. Gibbons assessment that the rebuild under Brunel was not to the parliamentary approved specification in terms and had safety issues and it was closed for rework by William Dargan as an accident would be disastrous for both companies.^[12] Dargan converted the down line between Kingstown and Old Dun Leary harbour to dual gauge so the spoil could be dumped there.^[g] and was able to complete the re-work quickly.^[13] When the Dalkey-Bray section re-opened on 1 July 1856 the D&KR handed all its operations to the D&WR.^[13] The D&WR converted their newly acquired line to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) in the next year or so enabling through running.

Carlisle Pier with its branch on the single track section just to the east of the station was created in 1859.^{[citation needed]}

Although it lay on a double-track railway for over ninety years, Dún Laoghaire station had only one through the platform with a bay platform facing Dublin, both on the seaward side of the station. The station lay on a short section of a single line that ran from just north of the station, to just past the junction for the branch to Carlisle Pier, which was controlled by a signal box known as the 'Hole in the Wall Box.' This arrangement created a bottleneck for intensive steam-hauled suburban services to/from Bray. It was not until 1957 that CIÉ remedied the situation by providing a second through the platform. Further improvements were carried out in connection with the introduction of DART electric trains in 1984.

A replacement station entrance, with a combined ticket office and automated barriers, was built above the railway lines at street level in 1998. It was constructed with a steel framework supporting a taut sail-like canopy and with glazed panels as side features.

Naming

Also called Kingstown Harbour the station was renamed Kingstown in 1861, and renamed Dún Laoghaire in 1921.^{[citation needed]} It was given the additional name "Mallin" on 10 April 1966, 50 years after the Easter Rising, when Córas Iompair Éireann renamed 15 major stations after Republican leaders. It is named in honour of Michael Mallin, a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising. although it is usually referred to simply as Dún Laoghaire.

Transport services

Directly outside the station are bus stops for Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and other private bus operator routes:

Dublin Bus Routes:

• 46a - Phoenix Park to Dún Laoghaire Station, via Dublin city centre
• Dublin Bus 7N Nitelink from Dublin city centre to Shankill, via Dún Laoghaire Station (Fri & Sat only)

Go-Ahead Ireland routes:

• 45a / 45b - Dun Laoghaire Station to Kilmacanogue, via Bray
• 59 - Dún Laoghaire Station to Killiney, via Dalkey
• 63 - Dún Laoghaire Station to Kilternan, via Foxrock
• 75 / 75a - Dún Laoghaire Station to Tallaght, via Stillorgan
• 111 - Dalkey to Bride's Glen, via Dún Laoghaire Station. This route provides a connection to the Luas Green Line terminus at Bride's Glen

In addition, a number of bus services stop at Marine Road / George's Street, located less than 350m from the station.

• Dublin Bus routes 7 / 7A from Mountjoy Square to Bride's Glen / Loughlinstown. Route 7 provides a connection to the Luas Green Line terminus at Bride's Glen
• Aircoach route 703 from Killiney to Dublin Airport, via Dún Laoghaire

There is also a busy taxi rank near the station on Marine Road, and a large car park adjacent to the station in the harbour area.

The station is where the Killiney-Dún Laoghaire footpath "The Metals" (Ná Ráillí) ends.

The station is next to the former Dún Laoghaire Ferryport, for Stena Line services to Holyhead. This service ceased in September 2014.

See also

• List of railway stations in Ireland

Gallery

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  The station in 2014

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  Commuter train arrives from Dublin

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  DART 8300 Class at Dún Laoghaire Mallin station in 2008

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  The previous station entrance in 2007

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  June 1975, the footbridge was later to become the main entrance

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  Chartered NIR diesel train in 1982 before the new entrance

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  Train in cutting south of the station in 1982

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  The terminus platform in 2012, the other side of the wall from the through platforms

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  Dalkey Atmospheric Railway used what is now platform two which was previously wider

Notes

1. The D&KR had some eventual ambitions of reaching Bray
2. The 1837 station was essentially based on the north of the current station at an beyond the current Platform 3 terminus platform
3. It would reasonable there was work to buildings for the opening of the Dalkey Atmospheric in 1844 but this seems difficult to source
4. This is the current platform 2 which was much wider at its eastern end than now
5. This may refer to the high station walls still showing in pictures in 2017 to the north of the station and between platforms 2 and 3
6. The precise order and details of the builds between 1840 and 1854 have some details that seem somewhat difficult to resolve between the sources and may require expert interpretation or better sources
7. this would have been in the part put off by the railway which had issues of holding stagnant water

References

1. Kullmann (2018), pp. 26–27.
2. Grierson (1887), pp. 108, 116, 120.
3. Murray (1981), p. 32—37.
4. Murray (1981), p. 38—42.
5. Pearson (1981), p. 48.
6. Grierson (1887), pp. 127–128.
7. Murray (1981), pp. 49, 51–53.
8. Grierson (1887), p. 127.
9. Kullmann (2018), pp. 141–146.
10. . Archiseek. Archived from the original on 23 March 2005. Retrieved 31 October 2007.
11. Murray (1981), p. 73.
12. Murray (1981), p. 72–74.
13. Murray (1981), p. 74.

Sources

• Grierson, Thomas B (1887). "The enlargement of Westland Row Terminus Part I". Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland. Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland. 18. from the original on 23 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
• Little, Stephen (June 2015). "5.11 Architectural Heritage". (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original on 23 September 2019.{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
• Kullmann, Kurt (28 May 2018). The First Irish Railway: Westland Row to Kingstown. THP Ireland. ISBN 978-0750987646.
• Murray, K. A. (1981). Ireland's First Railway. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society. ISBN 0-904078-07-8.
• Pearson, Peter (1981). Dun Laoghaire Kingstown. Dublin: O'Brien Press. ISBN 0-905140-83-4. OL 22450451M.

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