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MAYNOOTH RAILWAY STATION APRIL 2023

April 10, 2023 by infomatique

A BEAUTIFUL SETTING


The station is situated on the south side of the Royal Canal, opposite Dukes’ Harbour. Access to Maynooth is by either the footbridge to the west, which leads to the Main Street of Maynooth; west along the canal walk to residential areas of the town, or via the road bridges to the east, which lead north to the older part of Maynooth, or south to the newer areas.

The station has two staffed ticket desks and four automated ticket machines, one inside and three outside the station building. The ticket office is open from 06:00 AM to 23:15 PM, Monday to Sunday.

The footbridge crossing the tracks and connecting the two platforms was originally situated at Lansdowne Road railway station.

From Maynooth onwards to Sligo, the line is a single-track railway, the line being a double-track railway from Maynooth to Bray.

The 2018 NTA Heavy Rail Census showed 6,625 passengers using the station on the day of the survey, up from 6,228 in 2017 and 5,262 in 2016.

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Filed Under: County Kildare, Maynooth Station, Railway Station, Royal Canal, Train Station Tagged With: April 2023, County Kildare, Dukes' Harbour, Footbridge, Fotonique, Infomatique, Ireland, Public Transport, Railway Station, Royal Canal, Train Station, Trains, William Murphy

PEARSE STATION WAITING FOR A TRAIN TO DALKEY

April 8, 2023 by infomatique

EASTER WEEKEND 2023


Easter weekend did not start well for me. I arrived at Pearse Station after discovering that there was no general public access to Trinity College only to discover that trains terminated at Dun Laoghaire [Good Friday – Easter Monday]. The limited service will be a problem for me on Easter Sunday as I had been invited to Sunday lunch in Dalkey.

Pearse railway station or Dublin Pearse 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.

Major renovation commenced in 2007 with publicity erected in the station for this in March 2008. As part of phase 1, automatic ticket validation machines were installed on platforms 1 and 2. The front entrance of the station was changed. The former Spar shop was completely taken out of the station and the old ticket barriers were removed. Platforms 3, 4 and 5 were removed. New signage and CCTV cameras were added on both active platforms and, on Platform 2, a larger waiting area for passengers was provided.

An additional Southbound entrance (Pearse Street and Trinity Bio Science) was opened 9 April 2013. At the official opening of the entrance by Minister Leo Varadkar the National Transport Authority used the term Pearse Street Station[c] in the title of a page on its website although there was no evidence of any official renaming. with other examples of that usage in media elsewhere.

The roof structure comprises two main sections – the main station area roof has 40 barrelled roof trusses, each spanning 28 metres, over 38 bays, with additional gable end structures at both ends. Adjacent to the main station roof there is a second similar roof, which covers a car park and station infrastructure area. This is smaller and comprises 19 trusses over 18 bays. A €10m roof replacement project started in August 2018 and was completed in June 2020. Pearse Station was closed for 13 weekends over the two years to facilitate the replacement project. During these weekends, northside DART, Maynooth and Drogheda services operated to and from Connolly Station, with southside DART and Rosslare services operating from Grand Canal Dock.

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Filed Under: Dalkey, DART, Pearse Station, Public Transport, Railway Station, Train Station Tagged With: 2023, A7RIV, April, DART, Dublin, Easter Weekend, Fotonique, Infomatique, Ireland, Pearse Station, Pearse Street, Public Transport, Sony, Westland Row, William Murphy

THE LUAS TRAM STOP AT WINDY ARBOUR AND THE IMMEDIATE AREA

March 28, 2023 by infomatique

28 MARCH 2023


Windy Arbour, historically called Glassons, is a small suburban village in the Dundrum area of Dublin, Ireland. Situated between Dundrum and Milltown, along the banks of the Slang River (also Dundrum or Slann River).

Windy Arbour has a number of shops, a supermarket, post office, pharmacy and a bakery. It is also home to several takeaways and restaurants. There is a primary school in Columbanus Estate known as Our Lady’s National School, Clonskeagh. The area is served by Windy Arbour Luas stop and by the number 17, 44 and 61 bus routes.

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Filed Under: Luas, Public Transport, Tram Stop, Windy Arbour Tagged With: 12 pro Max, Apple, Areas Of Dublin, Dundrum, Fotonique, Halide, Infomatique, iPhone, Ireland, Milltown, Public Transport, Small Village, Tram Stop, Tram Tracks, Trams, William Murphy, Windy Arbour

TRAIN STATION IN DUN LAOGHAIRE

January 15, 2023 by infomatique

MALLIN STATION


DUN LAOGHAIRE WATERFRONT FACING SCOTSMAN’S BAY
THE REFURBISHED BATHS BUT WHERE IS THE POOL

Many years ago I was standing on the platform in Dun Laoghaire railway station and a tourist asked me how to get to Mallinn Station and I could not help her. I had lived near Malin Head in Donegal for about ten years and was unaware of a station near there. Over a period of about twenty pears I was employed by three different companies in Dun Laoghaire and had been unaware that the station was named “Mallin”. The next morning I asked at least ten people at work if they knew how to get to get to Mallin Station and only one person had heard of it but they thought that it was in Dalkey.

Also called Kingstown Harbour the station was renamed Kingstown in 1861, and renamed Dún Laoghaire in 1921. It was given the additional name “Mallin” 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 Michael Mallin, a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising. although it is usually referred to simply as Dún Laoghaire.

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Filed Under: DART, Dun Laoghaire, Mallin Station, Public Transport, Railway Station, Train Station Tagged With: County Dublin, DART, Dun Laoghaire, Fotonique, Infomatique, Ireland, Mallin, Public Transport, Railway Station, Train Station, William Murphy

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