Shankill railway station (DW&WR)

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

Shankill Seanchill
Shankill DW&WR Station as redeveloped after closure, to rear of modern office addition
General information
Location	Station Road, Shankill, Dublin 18, D18 XY38 Ireland
Coordinates	53.234°N 6.127°W / 53.234; -6.127
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Original company	Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
Pre-grouping	Dublin and South Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	Great Southern Railways
Key dates
10 July 1854	Station opens
31 December 1958	Station closed

Shankill railway station was a station on the Harcourt Street railway line. It served the suburb of Shankill, in County Dublin, Ireland.

History

v t e Harcourt Street Line
Year closed Harcourt Street 1958 Harcourt Road 1859 Grand Canal Rathmines & Ranelagh 1958 Milltown 1958 Nine Arches Viaduct over River Dodder Dundrum 1958 80m Stillorgan 1958 Stillorgan Rd. Foxrock 1958 Carrickmines 1958 Lehaunstown Ln. Bride's Glen Viaduct over Loughlinstown River Shankill 1958 Shanganagh Junct. Dublin-Rosslare line to Amiens Street Woodbrook 1960 Bray River Quinnsborough Rd. Bray Dublin-Rosslare railway line to Wexford and Waterford

Shankill 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. The next station to the south was Woodbrook Halt while to the north lay the Bride's Glen Viaduct and beyond that Carrickmines station. The station had a siding behind the southbound platform which served ore trucks from Glendalough, County Wicklow (which were transported to Rathdrum by horse and cart) for the Ballycorus Leadmines until its closure in 1913.[2] In later years the siding was used for local goods traffic and horse boxes.

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)[3]

Closure

The Harcourt Street line had declined in use throughout the early 20th century and was becoming rundown in the 1940s and 50s. The station was closed by CIÉ with the closure of the whole line from Harcourt Street on 31 December 1958, much to objection from the local community.

The site today

The station building remains and facade was covered up during construction of the Shankill Business Centre during the 1970s. It still survives today as Station House and is a part of the business centre. A new Shankill station was opened in 1977 at Corbawn Lane on the coastal line from Pearse to Bray and is served by the DART.

Gallery

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  Bride's glen viaduct to the north of the station

See also

• List of closed railway stations in Ireland

References

1. "Shankill". Eiretrains. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
2. MacAongusa, Brian (2003). The Harcourt Street Line. Back on Track. Dublin: Currach Press. ISBN 1-85607-907-4.
3. 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.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Carrickmines Line and station closed		Dublin and South Eastern Railway Harcourt Street line		Woodbrook Line and station closed