Dublin Pearse railway station

Dublin Pearse Baile Átha Cliath Stáisiún na bPiarsach
Location	Westland Row, Dublin 2, D02 RV00 Republic of Ireland
Coordinates	53°20′36″N 6°14′54″W / 53.3433°N 6.2483°W / 53.3433; -6.2483Coordinates: 53°20′36″N 6°14′54″W / 53.3433°N 6.2483°W / 53.3433; -6.2483
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Other information
Station code	PERSE
Fare zone	Suburban 1
Key dates
17 December 1834	Opened, as Westland Row
1966	Renamed Pearse
2007	Renovation commences
2013	Renovation completed

A Commuter 2700 Class crossing the bridge in Arrow Livery

The interior of Pearse Station

Dublin Pearse (Irish: Stáisiún na bPiarsach) is a railway station on Westland Row on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland. It is Ireland’s busiest commuter station and second busiest station overall (behind Dublin Connolly railway station) with 9 million passenger journeys through the station in 2016.^[1]

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 Mallin Sandycove Cutting Sandycove and Glasthule Glenageary Dalkey Killiney Hill Tunnel Obelisk Hill 1858 Killiney 1882 Killiney Ballybrack 1863 Ballybrack 1882 Shankill Harcourt Street line (closed 1958) 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 (closed 2010) 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 Mallin Sandycove and Glasthule Glenageary Dalkey Killiney Shankill Woodbrook (planned) Bray Daly 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 Mallin Sandycove and Glasthule Glenageary Dalkey Killiney Shankill Woodbrook (planned) Bray Daly Greystones

Services

It is the terminus of the Northern Commuter to Balbriggan/Dundalk and Western Commuter to Maynooth/Longford. DART, South Eastern Commuter (Dublin Connolly to Gorey) and South Western Commuter (Grand Canal Dock to Newbridge) services also serve the station. As do InterCity services from Dublin Connolly to Rosslare Europort.

Facilities

The station has two through platforms, 1 and 2. Until 2007, terminal Platform 3 was occasionally used for special services. A fourth platform also existed, but was unsuitable for modern trains and was used as a siding. This platform (and platform 5, which had been closed for some years and later converted into a car park) has been used as a set for movies including Michael Collins, Angela's Ashes, Nora and the 2005 remake Lassie. In summer 2008, Platform 3 was filled in as part of the station's full renovation while the disused Platform 4 was shortened.

The ticket office is open from 07:30 AM to 21:50 PM, Monday to Sunday.

The station also has a café on the southbound platform. This was closed during autumn 2006, and reopened as SoBo Café in February 2007. A Spar convenience store, which had been operational in the station for many years, closed in February 2008.

There are public lavatories at the station.

It is the headquarters of Iarnród Éireann's DART/Commuter sector.

Pearse Station sign - (Irish: Stáisiún na bPiarsach)

History

The first train, view from Cumberland Street, 1834

The station opened on 17 December 1834 as Westland Row Station,^[3] the city terminus of the Dublin & Kingstown Railway, the first 'commuter' line in the world. The station was extensively rebuilt for the opening of the City of Dublin Junction Railway in 1891. During this process, the station was converted into a through station, although it retained three terminus platforms.

The station was renamed in 1966 after the Pearse Family, notably brothers Patrick and Willie as part of the Easter Rising celebrations when many Irish railway stations were renamed. Because of its proximity to Pearse St, many Dubliners refer to the station as "Pearse Street Station" – in December 2004 Iarnród Éireann even posted a list of station departures headed with that name – though that is not its name or its geographic location. A number of intercity routes operated out of the station in the past, these included services to Sligo, Westport and Galway over the Midland and Great Western Route via Mullingar, which were transferred to Pearse (then Westland Row) in 1934 with the closure of Broadstone Station on the north side of the Liffey. Some, later all, trains on the ex-Dublin and South Eastern Railway route to Wicklow, Arklow, Wexford and Rosslare also operated out of Westland Row, though the principal terminus for that route was, for many years Harcourt Street station. The upgrading of the Portarlington to Athlone branch in the mid-1970s saw Westport and Galway trains transferred to Heuston station, whilst Sligo and Rosslare trains were retimed to originate and terminate at Connolly.

Future

Underground station

Pearse Station in 1993

The National Transport Authority planned an DART Underground connecting Heuston Station to the northern DART network via the new Docklands railway station in Spencer Dock. As part of this project, an underground station with two additional platforms would have been constructed beneath the present Pearse station as a stop on the DART Underground route. This would have made Pearse station the key exchange point between the new (underground) and old (overground) DART lines. The DART Underground project was rumoured to be cancelled, but was actually delayed on 22 September 2015.^[7]

DART 8100 Class on platform 1

See also

Preceding station		Iarnród Éireann		Following station
Tara Street		InterCity Dublin-Rosslare		Dún Laoghaire Mallin
Tara Street		Commuter Northern Commuter (Peak times only)		Terminus or Grand Canal Dock
		Commuter Western Commuter (City Branch)(Peak times only)
Tara Street		Commuter South Eastern Commuter		Lansdowne Road
Tara Street		DART Trans-Dublin		Grand Canal Dock
	Future
Docklands		DART Line 2		St Stephen's Green
	Disused railways
Terminus		Dublin and Kingstown Railway		Sandymount

• List of railway stations in Ireland
• Rail transport in Ireland
• History of rail transport in Ireland

References

External links

• Irish Rail Pearse Station website
• DART Underground
• Video tour of how Pearse Underground station will appear
• Eiretrains Pearse Station