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Dún Laoghaire Mallin railway station () is a station in
Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire ( , ) is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The town was built up alongside a small existing settlement following 1816 legislation th ...
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Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown () is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three successor counties to County Dublin, which was disestablished in 1994. It is named after the former ...
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History

The original station for
Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire ( , ) is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The town was built up alongside a small existing settlement following 1816 legislation th ...
, then known as Kingstown, was situated some closer to Dublin at the West Pier near to or at the present-day Salthill and Monkstown railway station. That station was the southern terminus of the first railway in Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR), which opened in 1834. For the first public timetable the station was named ''Kingstown'' but in contract documents it was at least sometimes referred to as ''Dunleary''. Before the D&KR had even begun to be built it became apparent that the packet boats were to use either the East Pier or the new wharf being built. Therefore, in 1833 the D&KR raised a parliamentary bill so its railway could be extended beyond the East Pier with a new station at Kingstown, then on to
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. Mobilised opposition from a rival canal group and local opposition caused the Bill to fail in June 1833. The D&KR regrouped and with lobbying presented a less ambitious bill to the site of the current station only in 1834. Thomas M. Gresham, a D&KR shareholder and main spokesperson for the opposition, being awarded a silver plate in August 1833 for the same at a personal cost of £1,200, was persuaded not to oppose the 1834 bill. Other obstacles including an agreement to cross the old part of Dunleary harbour and demolition of a Martello fortification needed an agreement with the Admiralty and Ordnance. The bill was passed in May 1834 but logistics meant Dargan began work in May 1836 finishing about a year later. The new terminus opened on 13 May 1837, the first train being a special with D&KR directors and friends. The original station building was an apparently insufficient ''Station House and Parcel Office'' and in 1840 the D&KR resolved to replace it, hiring J. S. Mulvaney as designer. The new station building eventually cost £2,500 and was designed by Mulvaney using stone quarried in Ballyknockan, County Wicklow in preference to granite from
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(which was located much closer). The platforms were finally covered in 1845 by a temporary structure costing £122 which was later extended for £300. On 29 March 1844, the
Dalkey Atmospheric Railway The Dalkey Atmospheric Railway (unofficial opening 19 August 1843, official opening 29 March 1844 – 12 April 1854) was an extension of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR) to Atmospheric Road in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland. It used part ...
officially opened. The line was a branch of the existing D&KR which diverged to the south when approaching from the west with an interchange platform before the atmospheric ran as a single track eastbound into the tunnel. While through running was possible it was not used. Grierson notes that the station build was completed in 1853 to a design by John Skipton Mulvany by Mr. Roberts doing the "masonry, carpentry, ironmongery, &c," for £1,665. L This included the station walls, while ironwork, roof, and plumbing cost £1,031 by I. & R. Mallet. The roof has since been removed. The station house above the platforms was completed in 1854. a structure in a neo-classical style, designed also by Mulvany. This was the station building until 1971 when the current arrangement was introduced. Mulvany's building became reused as a restaurant. The Dalkey Atmospheric ceased operation in 1854. The Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway exercised their rights and rebuilt the Dalkey to Kingstown section as a conventional railway at removing height restrictions. When they ran their first train into Kingstown on 10 October 1855, the D&KR directors refused them the use of the station and the passengers were forced to return towards
Dalkey Dalkey ( ; ) is a village in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county southeast of Dublin, Ireland. It was founded as a Viking settlement and became a port in the Middle Ages. According to chronicler John Clyn (c.1286–c.1349), it was one of the port ...
, this also happening for some days afterwards. On 30 March 1856, both the D&KR and D&WR concurred with the D&KR's engineer D. B. Gibbons assessment that the rebuild under Brunel was not to the parliamentary approved specification in terms and had safety issues and it was closed for rework by
William Dargan William Dargan MRDS (28 February 1799 – 7 February 1867) was arguably the most important Irish engineer of the 19th century and certainly the most important figure in railway construction. Dargan designed and built Ireland's first rail ...
as an accident would be disastrous for both companies. Dargan converted the down line between Kingstown and Old Dun Leary harbour to dual gauge so the spoil could be dumped there. and was able to complete the re-work quickly. When the Dalkey-Bray section re-opened on 1 July 1856 the D&KR handed all its operations to the D&WR. The D&WR converted their newly acquired line to in the next year or so enabling through running. Carlisle Pier with its branch on the single track section just to the east of the station was created in 1859. Although it lay on a
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for over ninety years, Dún Laoghaire station had only one through platform with a bay platform facing Dublin, both on the seaward side of the station. The station lay on a short section of a single line that ran from just north of the station, to just past the junction for the branch to Carlisle Pier, which was controlled by a signal box known as the 'Hole in the Wall Box.' This arrangement created a bottleneck for intensive steam-hauled suburban services to/from Bray. It was not until 1957 that
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remedied the situation by providing a second through platform. Further improvements were carried out in connection with the introduction of DART electric trains in 1984. A replacement station entrance, with a combined ticket office and automated barriers, was built above the railway lines at street level in 1998. It was constructed with a steel framework supporting a taut sail-like canopy and with glazed panels as side features.


Naming

Also called Kingstown Harbour the station was renamed Kingstown in 1861, and renamed Dún Laoghaire in 1921. It was given the additional name "Mallin" on 10 April 1966, 50 years after the
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, when Córas Iompair Éireann renamed 15 major stations after Republican leaders. It is named in honour of Michael Mallin, a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising. although it is usually referred to simply as Dún Laoghaire.


Services

Dún Laoghaire has two through platforms and one terminal platform. Unusually, the station building is on a bridge above the platforms, in a setup similar to Leixlip Louisa Bridge railway station. The station has a ticket office, automatic ticket machines and a small coffee shop. The ticket office is open between 05:45-00:06 AM, Monday to Sunday.


DART

From the inception of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) service in 1984, all DART services stop at Dún Laoghaire.


Other services

Dún Laoghaire is on the intercity Dublin-Rosslare and commuter
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routes and all trains on these routes stop here. They often run non-stop between Dun Laoghaire and Dublin Pearse, and freight and maintenance trains pass through Dún Laoghaire without stopping.


Transport services

Directly outside the station are bus stops for
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and other private bus operator routes, a full list of which is provided below: There is also a taxi rank near the station on Marine Road, and a car park adjacent to the station in the harbour area. The station is where the
Killiney Killiney () is an affluent coastal suburb on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. It lies south of Dalkey, east and northeast of Ballybrack and Sallynoggin and north of Shankill, in the local government area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown within ...
-Dún Laoghaire footpath "The Metals" (Ná Ráillí) ends. It is also next to the former Dún Laoghaire Ferryport, for
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services to
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. This service ceased in September 2014.


See also

* List of railway stations in Ireland


Gallery

Image:The Town Of Dun Laoghaire In Ireland (13315949165).jpg, The station in 2014 Image:Dun Laoghaire Railway Station (13315971865).jpg, Commuter train arrives from Dublin Image:Dun Laoghaire railway station in 2008.jpg, DART 8300 Class at Dún Laoghaire Mallin station in 2008 Image:Kingstown railway station Dublin Ireland.jpg, The previous station entrance in 2007 Image:Train at Dun Laoghaire (geograph 2363096).jpg, June 1975, the footbridge was later to become the main entrance Image:IE80Class.jpg, Chartered NIR diesel train in 1982 before the new entrance Image:Push-pull train, Dun Laoghaire.jpg, Train in cutting south of the station in 1982 Image:Dun Laoghaire Railway Station (terminal platform) (6977306703).jpg, The terminus platform in 2012, the other side of the wall from the through platforms Image:Dalkey Atmospheric Railway.jpeg, Dalkey Atmospheric Railway used what is now platform two which was previously wider Image:The Town Of Dun Laoghaire In Ireland (13316104533).jpg, The southbound platform with the Royal Irish Yacht Club building to rear in 2014


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External links


Irish Rail Dún Laoghaire Station Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dun Laoghaire Railway Station Iarnród Éireann stations in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Railway stations serving harbours and ports in Ireland Dún Laoghaire Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1837