Docklands Rail Station

  Docklands Rail Station

This project, part-financed by the European Commission to the tune of almost €8 million, involved the provision of a new railway station in the Docklands area to provide a short-term solution to the need to provide increased capacity and frequency on Maynooth and Western services to cater for growing demand. The station is also a prerequisite for the proposed Clonsilla/Dunboyne spur off the Maynooth line that is to open in 2010.

Services on the Western line, particularly from Maynooth, are heavily subscribed in the morning and evening peaks at present. Connolly Station cannot accommodate any additional peak-time services and while the DART resignalling project, when completed, will allow for some additional services, the demand along the line can not be met without this station which bypasses Connolly, The new station which was completed in March 2007ahead of schedule will be utilised until the Interconnector, with an underground station at Spencer Dock, is completed, at which time service options for the station will be reviewed. Iarnród Éireann operate some Western line services to both Connolly and the new Docklands station.

The station is conveniently accessed from the Luas Stop at Spencer Dock on the proposed Luas extension from Connolly Station, the new pedestrian footbridge across the Liffey and the proposed new Macken Street road bridge. Iarnród Éireann and the Railway Procurement Agency are in discussion to ensure optimum integration between Luas and commuter rail services.

http://www.irishrail.ie/projects/IE_Investment_Plans.asp