Bray Daly railway station

Bray Daly Bré Uí Dhálaigh
Commuter 29000 Class at Bray Daly station
Location	Florence Road, Bray, County Wicklow, A98 C8X4 Republic of Ireland
Coordinates	53°12′15″N 6°6′1″W / 53.20417°N 6.10028°W / 53.20417; -6.10028Coordinates: 53°12′15″N 6°6′1″W / 53.20417°N 6.10028°W / 53.20417; -6.10028
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	3 (only 2 see regular use)
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Other information
Station code	BRAY
Fare zone	Suburban 3
Key dates
10 July 1854	Opened, as Bray
14 July 1924	Renamed Bri Chualann (Bray)
c.1930	Renamed Bray
10 April 1966	Renamed Bray Daly
2 December 1974	Closes to goods traffic

Mural in Bray Daly Station

A panel representing every decade

Distinctive outline of Bray Head in the background

Dublin to Rosslare Line
Year closed Dublin–Belfast Line Dublin–Sligo line Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line (to Dublin Heuston) Luas Red Line (to The Point) Tara Street Dublin Pearse Grand Canal Dock Lansdowne Road Lansdowne Road Serpentine Avenue Sandymount Sandymount Sydney Parade Sydney Parade Merrion Gates Merrion 1934 Booterstown Blackrock Seapoint Salthill and Monkstown Dún Laoghaire Sandycove Cutting Sandycove and Glasthule Glenageary Dalkey Killiney Hill Tunnel Obelisk Hill 1858 Killiney 1882 Killiney Ballybrack 1863 Ballybrack 1882 Shankill Harcourt Street line Woodbrook 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 Wicklow Rathnew 1964 Glenealy 1964 Rathdrum Avoca 1964 Shillelagh branch line Woodenbridge Junction 1964 M11 motorway Arklow County Wicklow County Wexford Inch 1963 Gorey Camolin 1963 Ferns 1977 Enniscorthy Enniscorthy Tunnel Edermine Ferry 1963 Waterford line Macmine Junction 1963 Killurin 1963 Wexford O'Hanrahan Wexford South 1977 Limerick–Rosslare line Rosslare Strand Kilrane 1963 Rosslare Europort

South Eastern Commuter
Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Dublin Heuston and Tallaght Loopline Bridge Tara Street Dublin Pearse Grand Canal Dock Lansdowne Road Sandymount Sydney Parade Booterstown Blackrock Seapoint Salthill and Monkstown Dun Laoghaire Sandycove and Glasthule Glenageary Dalkey Killiney Shankill Bray Greystones Kilcoole Wicklow Rathdrum Arklow Gorey Dublin–Rosslare Line

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

Bray Daly railway station (Stáisiún Bhré / Uí Dhálaigh in Irish) is a station situated in Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is located adjacent to Bray seafront and is 600 m from Bray Main Street via Florence Road or Quinsborough Road.

Routes

Other services

Bray is on the Dublin-Rosslare and Dundalk-Dublin-Arklow routes, and all trains on these routes stop here. They often run non-stop between Bray and Dublin Connolly railway station, and freight and maintenance trains pass through Bray without stopping. Between the 1984 inauguration of DART and November 1990, a diesel shuttle train (initially a 201 class or 121 class locomotive with former AEC railcars converted to push–pull stock, later an 80 class train leased from Northern Ireland Railways) operated between Bray and Greystones, connecting with DART services.^[1] A similar service using a steam railmotor had operated briefly between 1906 and 1908.^[2]

Preceding station		Iarnród Éireann		Following station
Dún Laoghaire Mallin		InterCity Dublin-Rosslare railway line		Greystones
		Commuter South Eastern Commuter
Dún Laoghaire Mallin		Commuter Northern Commuter Peak times only		Terminus
		Commuter Western Commuter (City Branch) Peak times only
Shankill		DART Trans-Dublin		Greystones or Terminus
	Future
Luas
Ravenswell		Green Line		Terminus
	Disused railways
Shankill or Woodbrook		Dublin and South Eastern Railway Dublin-Rosslare		Bray Cove Halt

Station building

The station houses a bar (closed), shop, coffee stall, ticket office, automated teller machine (ATM) and unheated public toilets. There is a staff room for drivers. Sheltered bicycle parking is located inside the station. Disabled access to platform 2 on the east side of the station is through a new gate on that side, but lifts are also provided on the footbridge. The ticket office is open between 07:00-10:00 AM, Monday to Friday.

The redevelopment that saw the installation of these lifts was part of Iarnród Éireann's Dart Upgrade project to improve stations and facilities on the DART line. In addition to the lifts, the distinctive pyramid-style glass roof over platform 2 was renovated, as was the main station building.

The station was opened on 10 July 1854 ^[3] following the extension of the railway line south from Dalkey. The extension of the line around Bray Head in 1855 was not accompanied by any additional works at Bray station, so from then until 1928 the station had one through platform serving both southbound through trains and northbound trains to both Harcourt Street and Westland Row (Pearse) and Amiens Street (Connolly). As suburban services from Dublin became more frequent, this made the station extremely difficult to work, even with the provision of a bay platform at the south end for shuttle services to Greystones.

It was given the name Daly 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 Edward Daly, a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Road transport services

Directly outside the station are bus stops for Dublin Bus routes 45a, 84, 84a, 184 and 185, connecting Bray to Dun Laoghaire, Blackrock, Enniskerry, Greystones and Newtownmountkennedy. The high-frequency 145 bus service from Ballywaltrim to Heuston Station (via Bray) serves a number of stops located along Bray Main Street, which is 600m away from the station. The station is also served by the Finnegan Bray local bus services on routes to Bray Southern Cross and Sandyford Luas (Route 111). There is a busy taxi rank outside the station, and a large car park adjacent to the station, and a pickup lane for collecting passengers by car. A tiny Chinatown adjoins the station in Albert Walk with restaurants, groceries and other shops.

See also

• List of railway stations in Ireland

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bray Daly Station.

• Bray Daly Station - Official Iarnród Éireann webpage