Shankill railway station (DW&WR)
Shankill Seanchill  | |||||||||||||
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 Shankill DW&WR Station as redevleoped after closure, to rear of modern office addition | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Republic of Ireland | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°14′02″N 6°07′37″W / 53.234°N 6.127°W | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Original company | Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway | ||||||||||||
| Pre-grouping | Dublin and South Eastern Railway | ||||||||||||
| Post-grouping | Great Southern Railways | ||||||||||||
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| 10 July 1854 | Station opens | ||||||||||||
| 31 December 1958 | Station closed | ||||||||||||
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Shankill railway station was opened by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR) on 10 July 1854 as part of the Harcourt Street line, initially Dundrum to Bray.[1] It is situated on Station Road some 650 metres south-west of the current Shankill station opened in 1977 on the Line from Dublin Pearse to Bray. The next station to the south was Woodbrook while to the north lay the Bride's Glen Viaduct and beyond that Carrickmines station. The station closed with the line closure of the whole line from Harcourt Street on 31 December 1958.
The station building remains and facade was covered up during construction of the Shankill Business Centre during the 1970s.
It has been noted the fastest timetabled run on the DW&WR in the 1880s was the 5.10 pm from Harcourt Street which was scheduled to achieve the 9+3⁄4 miles (15.7 km) to Shankill in 20 minutes at a rate of 29+1⁄4 miles per hour (47.1 km/h)[2]
Gallery
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Bride's glen viaduct to the north of the station
