Shankill railway station (DW&WR)

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This article is about The station built in 1854 by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway. For 1977 station on the DART line, see Shankill railway station.

Shankill

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Old Shankill station.jpg
Shankill DW&WR Station as redevleoped after closure, to rear of modern office addition
LocationIreland
Coordinates53°14′02″N 6°07′37″W / 53.234°N 6.127°W / 53.234; -6.127Coordinates: 53°14′02″N 6°07′37″W / 53.234°N 6.127°W / 53.234; -6.127
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
History
Original companyDublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
Pre-groupingDublin and South Eastern Railway
Post-groupingGreat Southern Railways
Key dates
10 July 1854Station opens
31 December 1958Station closed
Services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Carrickmines
Line and station closed 		  Dublin and South Eastern Railway
Dublin-Bray 		  Woodbrook
Line and station closed

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 Westland Row to Bray. The next station to the south was Woodbrook while to the north lay the 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[]

  • Bride's glen viaduct to the north of the station

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Shankill". Eiretrains. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. ^ Ahrons, E. L. (1954). L. L. Asher (ed.). Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Vol. six. W Heffer & Sons Ltd. p. 44.
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