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Dublin Area Rapid Transit, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of the DART concept, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART stations, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART's Competitors, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Development and Redevelopment of the DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Integration with road traffic, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - List of DART stations, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Operational Details, Rail transport in Ireland, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Luas the "Dublin Light Rail System"
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Rail transport in Ireland | | | |  Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Rail transport in Ireland - Main routesSome services below usually, but not necessarily always, involve a change of trains. Changing points are shown in bold type. Usually services at different times of day will serve a different subset of the stations shown below. The "stations served" lists all possible stops for any train on a given route. As an example, some services to Limerick do not involve a change at Limerick Junction, and some services to Cork may stop at Limerick Junction, Charleville and Mallow only.
Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Belfast.
Stations served - Dublin Connolly, Dr ...
See also:Rail transport in Ireland, Rail transport in Ireland - Traction, Rail transport in Ireland - Locomotives, Rail transport in Ireland - Multiple units, Rail transport in Ireland - Rolling Stock, Rail transport in Ireland - Main routes, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Belfast, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Cork, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Limerick, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Galway, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Tralee, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Waterford, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Wexford/Rosslare Europort, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Sligo, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin to Westport/Ballina, Rail transport in Ireland - Regional Routes, Rail transport in Ireland - Limerick to Nenagh/Ballybrophy/Dublin, Rail transport in Ireland - Limerick to Ennis, Rail transport in Ireland - Limerick to Waterford/Rosslare, Rail transport in Ireland - Cork Suburban, Rail transport in Ireland - Cork to Cóbh, Rail transport in Ireland - Cork to Midleton, Rail transport in Ireland - Cork to Mallow, Rail transport in Ireland - Galway Suburban, Rail transport in Ireland - DART/Commuter Dublin Suburban, Rail transport in Ireland - Dublin Rail Plan, Rail transport in Ireland - Northern Commuter, Rail transport in Ireland - Northwest Commuter Maynooth and Mullingar Services, Rail transport in Ireland - Northwest Commuter Clonsilla-Navan Project, Rail transport in Ireland - Kildare Commuter, Rail transport in Ireland - Southern service, Rail transport in Ireland - DART, Rail transport in Ireland - Northern Ireland, Rail transport in Ireland - Suburban, Rail transport in Ireland - Derry, Rail transport in Ireland - Other lines, Rail transport in Ireland - Limerick to Foynes Read more here: » Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Rail transport in Ireland - Main routes |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Northern Ireland Railways - History NIR was formed in 1968 when it took over from the Ulster Transport Authority, which operated since 1948. Much of Northern Ireland's railway network was closed during the 1950s and 1960s, declining from 1500 km (900 miles) in the 1950s to 342 km (210 miles) at present.
Since the 1960s the NIR network became increasingly run down, with old rolling stock and worn out track. In 2004/2005, NI Railways began to receive delivery of 23 new trainsets from CAF of Spain, in a order which totalled £80m. The final train, 3023, arrived in Belfast ...
See also:Northern Ireland Railways, Northern Ireland Railways - Routes, Northern Ireland Railways - History, Northern Ireland Railways - Sources Read more here: » Northern Ireland Railways: Encyclopedia II - Northern Ireland Railways - History |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Ireland - Ireland's first railway The first railway to be built in Ireland was the Dublin and Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) Railway (D&KR), a distance of six miles. The contractor was one William Dargan, now known as the founder of railways in Ireland due to his participation in many of the main routes built on the island. The D&KR was notable in being one of the earliest dedicated commuter railways in the world. The planning undertaken is also noteworthy, a full traffic su ...
See also:History of rail transport in Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland - Transport before railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Ireland's first railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Railway gauges, History of rail transport in Ireland - Main line railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Other railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Belfast and County Down Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, History of rail transport in Ireland - Dublin and South Eastern Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Northern Railway of Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Southern & Western Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Midland Great Western Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Northern Counties Committee, History of rail transport in Ireland - Monorail, History of rail transport in Ireland - Struggling in the early 20th century, History of rail transport in Ireland - Diesel Dawn, History of rail transport in Ireland - Rationalisation, History of rail transport in Ireland - Steady as she goes, History of rail transport in Ireland - Rail revival, History of rail transport in Ireland - The future Read more here: » History of rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Ireland - Ireland's first railway |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway In 1845 the Royal Canal was purchased by the Midland Great Western Railway Company for £298,059 with a view to using the land alongside the canal to construct a railway line to the west of Ireland. Completed in 1850, this beautiful building was one of Dublin's four original rail termini, the other stations being Amien Street (now Connolly Station), Kingsbridge (now Heuston Station) and Harcourt Street (now the POD bar and nightclub complex ). Situated at the crest of Constitution Hill directly opposite King's Inns, the station served as the ...
See also:Broadstone, Broadstone - Beginnings, Broadstone - The Royal Canal, Broadstone - King’s Inns, Broadstone - The Black Church, Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway, Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal, Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway, Broadstone - Modern Times, Broadstone - Regeneration Read more here: » Broadstone: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Operational Details The service is provided by a mixed fleet of electric multiple unit trains. 38 two-car sets by LHB of Germany built in 1983, five two-car sets by Alstom of Barcelona, Spain built in 1999 and most recently 17 four-car Japanese-built sets by Tokyu Car of Yokohama between 2000 and 2004. They normally run coupled as eight- or six-car trains in the peak periods, typically 07:00-09:30 and 17:00-18:30, and four-car trains at other times. Japanese sets typically operate with an Alstom unit to make a six-car train. Work is currently ongoing to allow t ...
See also:Dublin Area Rapid Transit, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Development and Redevelopment of the DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Operational Details, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART's Competitors, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Integration with road traffic, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of the DART concept, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART stations, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - List of DART stations Read more here: » Dublin Area Rapid Transit: Encyclopedia II - Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Operational Details |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - Modern Times After the closure of the railway came the hardships of the war, rationing, and a pro-longed recession. Unemployment and deprivation hit the inhabitants of Dublin's north inner city hard, and the area around Dominick Street, Grangegorman and Broadstone was one of the worst affected by drug abuse, especially heroin. The park at Royal Canal Bank and the disused reservoir at Blessington Street were magnets for delinquents, as was the dereliction around Paradise Place.
The Irish Youth Hostelling association, An Óige, took over the old convent building on Mountjoy Street and this now serves as both the headquarters of the organisation a ...
See also:Broadstone, Broadstone - Beginnings, Broadstone - The Royal Canal, Broadstone - King’s Inns, Broadstone - The Black Church, Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway, Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal, Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway, Broadstone - Modern Times, Broadstone - Regeneration Read more here: » Broadstone: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - Modern Times |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway By the 1930's the railway was failing too and the last train arrived from Westport in 1937. In 1944 the Canal and Railway were both transferred to the ownership of the state transport company Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE), which tranferred all it's steam locomotives there in 1954. However when steam locomotion ended in 1961, Broadstone was closed for good. Foster Aqueduct was removed in 1951 to facilitate road widening.
Today the historic building is used as offices by Bus Éireann - Irish Bus and the rest of the site is used a parking and servicing area for buses, with the main building mostly o ...
See also:Broadstone, Broadstone - Beginnings, Broadstone - The Royal Canal, Broadstone - King’s Inns, Broadstone - The Black Church, Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway, Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal, Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway, Broadstone - Modern Times, Broadstone - Regeneration Read more here: » Broadstone: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal The Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century had caused a huge wave of emigration, and the population of Ireland was reduced from about 8 million in the 1830s to around 4 million a century later. The worst hit areas were the rural population of the west, precisely the market of the MGWR. There was a brief period of boom in the 1870s as the flow of people from the west peaked, but as the people left, traffic in the other direction reduced markedly. As emigra ...
See also:Broadstone, Broadstone - Beginnings, Broadstone - The Royal Canal, Broadstone - King’s Inns, Broadstone - The Black Church, Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway, Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal, Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway, Broadstone - Modern Times, Broadstone - Regeneration Read more here: » Broadstone: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - Regeneration There have been many calls to have the main building of Broadstone Station restored, and discussions in recent years have suggested it as the city terminus of the proposed metro system to Dublin Airport, while others have called for the re-opening of the old rail line to enable residents of outlying areas along the old route to commute to the city more easily on a daily basis.
The linking spur was filled in and made into a long narrow park, Royal Canal Bank, in ...
See also:Broadstone, Broadstone - Beginnings, Broadstone - The Royal Canal, Broadstone - King’s Inns, Broadstone - The Black Church, Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway, Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal, Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway, Broadstone - Modern Times, Broadstone - Regeneration Read more here: » Broadstone: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - Regeneration |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Development and Redevelopment of the DART The original DART service, provided from 1984 onwards, ran from Howth, a fishing village to the north of Dublin city centre, through the city centre stations of Connolly, Tara Street, and Pearse, to the port suburb of Dún Laoghaire and terminated at Bray. This was the route for some 15 years, when the electrification was extended south one stop to Greystones, and North from Howth Junction two stops along the Be ...
See also:Dublin Area Rapid Transit, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Development and Redevelopment of the DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Operational Details, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART's Competitors, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Integration with road traffic, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of the DART concept, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART stations, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - List of DART stations Read more here: » Dublin Area Rapid Transit: Encyclopedia II - Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Development and Redevelopment of the DART |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Black Church St. Mary's Chapel of Ease, universally known as the Black Church, was built in 1830 and was designed by John Semple. The nickname is thought to have originated due to the gloom of interior, rather than the dark-grey colour of the exterior - the building has very thick walls and narrow windows. An interesting feature of the church is that is has no distinct walls or ceilings inside, the interior consisting entirely of a parbolic arch.
Legend has it a person walking anti-clockwise two or three times around the church at midnight, reciti ...
See also:Broadstone, Broadstone - Beginnings, Broadstone - The Royal Canal, Broadstone - King’s Inns, Broadstone - The Black Church, Broadstone - The Midland Great Western Railway, Broadstone - The Decline of the Canal, Broadstone - The Decline of the Railway, Broadstone - Modern Times, Broadstone - Regeneration Read more here: » Broadstone: Encyclopedia II - Broadstone - The Black Church |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Midland Great Western Railway - Present Day The former MGWR lines which remain operational (as of October 2005) are owned by Iarnród Éireann. The routes from Dublin to Sligo, Athlone to Galway, Athlone to Westport and the Ballina branch remain open to passenger traffic, with the Navan line open for freight only. The Clonsilla-Navan, Edenderry, Clifden, Cavan, Ballaghaderreen, Ballinrobe, Killala and Loughrea branches/sections are all closed.
Platform 11 have proposed running some Dublin to Galway services via the MGWR station in Athlone and the idled route via Moate to Mullin ...
See also:Midland Great Western Railway, Midland Great Western Railway - Inception, Midland Great Western Railway - Dublin to Galway, Midland Great Western Railway - Galway to Clifden, Midland Great Western Railway - Consolidation, Midland Great Western Railway - Present Day Read more here: » Midland Great Western Railway: Encyclopedia II - Midland Great Western Railway - Present Day |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Ireland - Railway gauges The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways of Ireland is 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in). This unusual gauge is otherwise found only in the Australian states of Victoria and South Australia (where it was introduced by the Irish railway engineer F. W. Shields), and in Brazil.
The first three railways had lines of three different gauges, the dimensions being : the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm); the Ulster Railway, 6 ft 2 in (1880 mm); and the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, 5 ft 2 in (1575 mm). The ...
See also:History of rail transport in Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland - Transport before railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Ireland's first railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Railway gauges, History of rail transport in Ireland - Main line railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Other railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Belfast and County Down Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, History of rail transport in Ireland - Dublin and South Eastern Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Northern Railway of Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Southern & Western Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Midland Great Western Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Northern Counties Committee, History of rail transport in Ireland - Monorail, History of rail transport in Ireland - Struggling in the early 20th century, History of rail transport in Ireland - Diesel Dawn, History of rail transport in Ireland - Rationalisation, History of rail transport in Ireland - Steady as she goes, History of rail transport in Ireland - Rail revival, History of rail transport in Ireland - The future Read more here: » History of rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Ireland - Railway gauges |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Southern & Western Railway Known still today as the 'premier line', the Great Southern & Western Railway (GS&WR) was the largest railway system in Ireland. It began as a railway incorporated to connect Dublin with Cashel - incorporated 6 August 1844 - and which was afterwards extended to the city of Cork in southern Ireland. Between then and the end of the 19th century various other amalgamations took place, among them lines to Limerick and Waterford.
In 1900, as a result of Acts of Parliament, several important lines became part of the GS&WR ...
See also:History of rail transport in Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland - Transport before railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Ireland's first railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Railway gauges, History of rail transport in Ireland - Main line railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Other railways, History of rail transport in Ireland - Belfast and County Down Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, History of rail transport in Ireland - Dublin and South Eastern Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Northern Railway of Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Southern & Western Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Midland Great Western Railway, History of rail transport in Ireland - Northern Counties Committee, History of rail transport in Ireland - Monorail, History of rail transport in Ireland - Struggling in the early 20th century, History of rail transport in Ireland - Diesel Dawn, History of rail transport in Ireland - Rationalisation, History of rail transport in Ireland - Steady as she goes, History of rail transport in Ireland - Rail revival, History of rail transport in Ireland - The future Read more here: » History of rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Ireland - Great Southern & Western Railway |
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| | | | Rail transport in Ireland: Encyclopedia II - Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART stations One of the best-known stations is at Lansdowne Road, the home of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) and the venue for Irish rugby and soccer international matches. Further south, the train stops at Sydney Parade, a street of some Georgian and many Edwardian and Victorian red-brick houses in the Dublin embassy belt.
It is believed that the former station at Merrion Gates - between Sydney Parade and Booterstown - will be redeveloped in the near future, though this awaits confirmation.
Dublin Area Rapid Transit - List of DART stations.
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See also:Dublin Area Rapid Transit, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Development and Redevelopment of the DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Operational Details, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART's Competitors, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of DART, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Integration with road traffic, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - Criticism of the DART concept, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART stations, Dublin Area Rapid Transit - List of DART stations Read more here: » Dublin Area Rapid Transit: Encyclopedia II - Dublin Area Rapid Transit - DART stations |
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