Broombridge railway station

Broombridge
Droichead Broome
Iarnród Éireann
Location Cabra
Ireland
Coordinates 53°22′22″N 6°17′58″W / 53.3727°N 6.2995°W / 53.3727; -6.2995Coordinates: 53°22′22″N 6°17′58″W / 53.3727°N 6.2995°W / 53.3727; -6.2995
Owned by Iarnród Éireann
Operated by Iarnród Éireann
Platforms 2
Construction
Structure type At-grade
Other information
Station code BBRDG
Fare zone Suburban 1
Key dates
2 July 1990 Station opens
9 December 2017 Luas services commence

Broombridge is a railway station beside a LUAS Tram stop serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland. It lies on the southern bank of the Royal Canal at the western end of what had been Liffey Junction station on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway. It takes its name from Broome Bridge, which crosses the canal, a place best known as where William Rowan Hamilton discovered the mathematical notion of quaternions. A plaque on the adjacent canal bridge and the naming of the LUAS Maintenance depot on site, Hamilton Depot, commemorates this.[1]

Services

Broomdridge is a station on the Western Commuter services. It is the last station approaching Dublin served by both branches of the Western Commuter line, before the line splits between trains heading to Connolly Station and those going to Docklands.

Description

The railway station was opened on 2 July 1990,[2] with two "accessible" platforms.[3]

The station is unmanned and had been subject to vandalism significant and sustained enough for Iarnród Éireann to be concerned and questions asked about it in the Dáil.[4][5] The lack of shelter for passengers or seating facilities was similarly questioned,[6] and in 2012, additional security measures were added along with seating and decoration in advance of the station's redesign as part of the Luas Cross City project.

Leap card validators, previously not provided due to vandalism concerns, have been installed and a pedestrian overbridge with lifts built following the opening of the adjacent Luas station. There are still no ticket purchasing facilities but Leap cards can be reloaded at the Luas stop.

Western Commuter
Dublin–Sligo Line
 Longford
 Edgeworthstown
 Mullingar
 Enfield
 Kilcock
 Maynooth
 Leixlip Louisa Bridge
 Leixlip Confey
 M3 Parkway
 Dunboyne
 Hansfield
Docklands branch
 Clonsilla
 Coolmine
 Castleknock
 Navan Road Parkway
 Ashtown
 Broombridge
Luas
to Liffey Junction
& Dublin Broadstone
(
closed
1937
)
The Royal Canal
Phoenix Park Tunnel
to Dublin Heuston
Drumcondra
Docklands
(Luas Spencer Dock)
The Royal Canal
 Dublin Connolly Luas
Luas Red Line
to Dublin Heuston and Tallaght
Loopline Bridge
 Tara Street
 Dublin Pearse

LUAS interchange station and Maintenance Depot

Luas Green Line
Dublin–Sligo line
westbound
Broombridge Iarnród Éireann
Dublin–Sligo line
eastbound
 Cabra
 Phibsborough
 Grangegorman
 Broadstone - DIT
 Dominick
Cathal Brugha Street
 Parnell
O'Connell Upper
O'Connell - GPO
 Marlborough
Red Line
Abbey Street
River Liffey
O'Connell Bridge │ Rosie Hackett Bridge
Westmoreland
 Trinity
Dawson
 St Stephen's Green
 Harcourt
Grand Canal
Charlemont
Ranelagh
 Beechwood
 Cowper
 Milltown
River Dodder
 Windy Arbour
Dundrum
 Balally
 Kilmacud
Stillorgan
 Sandyford
 Depot
 Central Park
M50 Motorway
 Glencairn
 The Gallops
 Leopardstown Valley
 Ballyogan Wood
M50 Motorway
Racecourse
(unused)
 Carrickmines
Brennanstown
(unused)
 Laughanstown
Cherrywood
Wyattville Link Road
 Bride’s Glen

The Luas Broombridge interchange station is the northside Dublin terminus of the Luas Green Line. Trams operate from Broombridge through Dublin City Centre to the South side terminus in Sandyford. The site also contains a maintenance depot for LUAS trams operating services on the Luas Green Line.

History

In November 2011, the government announced in its 2012–2016 Infrastructure and Capital Investment plan that the project to link the Red and Green lines, was to proceed.[7][8] Construction work for a key part of the line infrastructure, the Rosie Hackett Bridge across the River Liffey, began in April 2012,[9] and a Railway Order was granted for the new line on 3 August 2012. Work on building the line commenced in June 2013, with services starting on 9 December 2017.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thejournal.ie/algebra-maths-luas-depot-new-celebration-1728326-Oct2014/
  2. ↑ "Broombridge station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
  3. ↑ http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/Guide%20for%20Rail%20Passengers%20with%20Disabilities.pdf
  4. ↑ Growing fears at attacks on trains in west Dublin, The Irish Times, 7 Jul 2004. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  5. ↑ Dáil Éireann - Volume 593 - 25 November 2004, Written Answers. - Rail Services. Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Dáil Éireann - Volume 543 - 6 November 2001. Written Answers. - Transport Safety. Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Metro North, DART underground plans shelved". RTÉ News. 10 November 2011.
  8. ↑ "Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012–16". Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  9. ↑ "Do we need €15m Liffey bridge?". Evening Herald. 28 April 2012.
  10. ↑ "Green light given to Luas link-up, first passengers 2017". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  11. ↑ "Taoiseach launches new Luas Cross City service in Dublin". RTÉ. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
Preceding station   Iarnród Éireann   Following station
Drumcondra   Commuter
Western Commuter
(City Branch)		   Ashtown
Docklands   Commuter
Western Commuter
(Docklands Branch)		  
  Future  
Drumcondra   DART
Line 1		   Ashtown
Luas Luas
Cabra   Green Line   Terminus
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