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Broombridge railway station

Coordinates: 53°22′22″N 6°17′58″W / 53.3727°N 6.2995°W / 53.3727; -6.2995
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Broombridge

Droichead Broome
Iarnród Éireann
General information
LocationCabra
Ireland
Coordinates53°22′22″N 6°17′58″W / 53.3727°N 6.2995°W / 53.3727; -6.2995
Owned byIarnród Éireann
Operated byIarnród Éireann
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Other information
Station codeBBRDG
Fare zoneSuburban 1
Key dates
2 July 1990Station opens
2017Luas services expected to commence

Broombridge is a railway station serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland. It lies on the southern bank of the Royal Canal at the western end of what had been Liffey Junction station on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway. It takes its name from Broome Bridge, which crosses the canal, a place best known as where William Rowan Hamilton discovered the mathematical notion of quaternions. A plaque on the adjacent canal bridge commemorates this.

Description

The station was opened on 2 July 1990,[1] with two "accessible" platforms.[2] It is the last station approaching Dublin served by both branches of the Western Commuter line, before the line splits between trains heading to Connolly Station and those going to Docklands.The station is unmanned and has been subject to vandalism significant and sustained enough for Iarnród Éireann to be concerned and questions asked about it in the Dáil.[3][4] The lack of shelter for passengers or seating facilities was similarly questioned,[5] and in 2012, additional security measures added and some seating and decoration added in advance of the station's redesign as part of the Luas Cross City project. The station is expected to be fully rebuilt in 2016.

Western Commuter
Legend
Dublin–Sligo Line
 Longford
Edgeworthstown
Mullingar
Enfield
Kilcock
Maynooth
Leixlip Louisa Bridge
Leixlip Confey
M3 Parkway
Dunboyne
Hansfield (serves Ongar)
Clonsilla
Coolmine
Castleknock
Navan Road Parkway
Ashtown
Pelletstown
Broombridge
Luas
to Liffey Junction
& Dublin Broadstone
(
closed
1937
)
The Royal Canal
Phoenix Park Tunnel
to Dublin Heuston
Drumcondra
Docklands
(Luas Spencer Dock)
The Royal Canal
 Dublin Connolly Luas
Luas Red Line
to Tallaght or Saggart
Loopline Bridge
 Tara Street
Dublin Pearse

Luas Connection

Luas Cross City
Green Line extension
Legend
 Broombridge
Iarnród Éireann
Hamilton Depot
 Cabra
Phibsborough
Grangegorman
Broadstone – DIT
Dominick
Cathal Brugha Street
 Parnell
O'Connell Upper
O'Connell - GPO
Marlborough
Red Line
Abbey Street
River Liffey
O'Connell Bridge ┃ Rosie Hackett Bridge
 Westmoreland
Trinity
Dawson
St Stephen's Green
Green Line to Sandyford and Brides Glen

The Luas Broombridge interchange station will be a terminus of the Luas Green Line, once the planned Cross City extension is complete. In November 2011, the government announced in its 2012–2016 Infrastructure and Capital Investment plan that the project to link the Red and Green lines, was to proceed.[6][7] Construction work for a key part of the line infrastructure, the Rosie Hackett Bridge across the River Liffey, began in April 2012,[8] and a Railway Order was granted for the new line on 3 August 2012. Work on building the line commenced in June 2013, with services planned to start in 2017.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Broombridge station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
  2. ^ http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/Guide%20for%20Rail%20Passengers%20with%20Disabilities.pdf
  3. ^ Growing fears at attacks on trains in west Dublin, The Irish Times, 7 Jul 2004. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  4. ^ Dáil Éireann - Volume 593 - 25 November 2004, Written Answers. - Rail Services. Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Dáil Éireann - Volume 543 - 6 November 2001. Written Answers. - Transport Safety. Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Metro North, DART underground plans shelved". RTÉ News. 10 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012–16". Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  8. ^ "Do we need €15m Liffey bridge?". Evening Herald. 28 April 2012.
  9. ^ "Green light given to Luas link-up, first passengers 2017". RTÉ. Retrieved 5 August 2012.

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