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Navan Road Parkway (formerly Phoenix Park) opened nearby in 2008 but does not replace Ashtown. A major grade-separated junction was built on the R147 to provide access to Navan Road Parkway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ticket office is open from 06:30 to 16:00, Monday to Friday. It is closed on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The station was opened by the Midland Great Western Railway in 1847 for race specials at the now-demolished Phoenix Park Racecourse. It opened fully on 1 August 1902. Absorbed into the Great Southern Railways by way of the Railways (Great Southern) Preliminary Amalgamation Scheme of 12 November 1924 (SI no. 31 of that year), the station closed in 1934.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line through the station was then nationalised, passing on to C\u00f3ras Iompair \u00c9ireann as a result of the Transport Act 1944 which took effect from 1 January 1945. Under this management, it reopened briefly in 1979 for the visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland in order to facilitate the large numbers who attended the open-air mass in the Phoenix Park and reopened permanently on 11 January 1982. It passed on to Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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