Dún Laoghaire railway station

Dún Laoghaire Mallin Stáisiún Dhún Laoghaire/Í Mhealláin
DART 8300 Class at Dún Laoghaire station in 2008
Location	Crofton Road, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, A96 N7C6 Republic of 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
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Other information
Station code	DLERY
Fare zone	Suburban 2
Key dates
1834	Station opens as Kingstown Harbour
1861	Station renamed Kingstown
1921	Station renamed Dún Laoghaire
1966	Station renamed Dún Laoghaire-Mallin
1971	Original station building closed
1997	Current station building opens

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

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

Services

The station has been named Dún Laoghaire-Mallin since 1966, after Michael Mallin, although it is usually referred to simply as Dún Laoghaire. It has two through platforms and one terminal platform and is served by DART services, the South Eastern Commuter line, and InterCity services to Rosslare Europort via Wexford.

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.

The station is also where the mettles end.

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

Beside the station is also the terminus of the 63, 75 and the 46a, the most frequent and heavily used bus route in Dublin. The 746 bus route from the station terminus to Dublin Airport was discontinued in 2010.

History

The station was the southern terminus of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway and opened in 1834.^[1] It replaced the original Kingstown Harbour station at the West Pier, close to present-day Salthill and Monkstown railway station, when the line was extended closer to the harbour two years after the opening of the line, the delay being a result of local opposition in Kingstown.^[2]

The earlier Kingstown railway station

Also called Kingstown Harbour, the new station was renamed Kingstown in 1861, renamed Dún Laoghaire in 1921 and received its present name in 1966.^[1]

Although it lay on a double track railway for over ninety years Dún Laoghaire station had only one through platform with a bay platform facing Dublin, both on the seaward side of the station. The station lay on a short section of 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 bottle neck for intensive steam-hauled suburban services to/from Bray. It was not until 1957 that CIÉ remedied the situation by providing a second through platform. Further improvements were carried out in connection with the introduction of DART electric trains in 1984.

Mileages to Holyhead.

The original station building was replaced in 1854^[3] by a new structure in a neo-classical style, designed by John Skipton Mulvany.^[2] This was the station building until 1971, when the current arrangement was introduced. Mulvany's building is now Hartley's restaurant.

A replacement station entrance, with 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.

Stena Line fast ferry departure to Holyhead.

See also

• List of railway stations in Ireland

A Great Northern Railway (I) locomotive GNRI Class U crossing over the Level crossing from the Pier station.

References

External links

• Irish Rail Dún Laoghaire Station Website

Preceding station		Iarnród Éireann		Following station
Dublin Pearse		InterCity Dublin-Rosslare		Bray Daly
Blackrock		Commuter South Eastern Commuter		Bray Daly
Salthill & Monkstown		DART Trans-Dublin		Sandycove & Glasthule
	Disused railways
Salthill		Dublin and Kingstown Railway		Terminus
Terminus		Dalkey Atmospheric Railway		Sandycove