Disused Railway Stations in County Dublin - Broadstone Railway Station, Carlisle Pier, Harcourt Street Railway Station, Liffey Junction (Paperback)

Chapters: Broadstone Railway Station, Carlisle Pier, Harcourt Street Railway Station, Liffey Junction, Dublin Connolly Junction Railway Station. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Broadstone railway station, (Irish: ), the former Dublin terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway, is currently the headquarters of Bus Eireann, housing most of their administration and also one of their main garages. Nearby on the same property, there is also a Dublin Bus Depot. In 1845 the Royal Canal was purchased by the Midland Great Western Railway Company for 298,059 with a view to using the land alongside the canal to construct a railway line to the west of Ireland. Broadstone Station was opened on 28 June 1847, closed to public traffic in 1937 and finally closed on 8 April 1961, having been used as the steam depot for Dublin between 1937 and this date. This building was one of Dublin's six original rail termini, the others being Westland Row (now Pearse Station) Amiens Street (now Connolly Station), Kingsbridge (now Heuston Station), North Wall and Harcourt Street (now the Odeon Bar / POD bar and nightclub complex). Situated at the crest of Constitution Hill directly opposite King's Inns, the station served as the finishing point of the Midland and Great Western Railway. Designed by John Skipton Mulvany, the structure was built between 1841 and 1850, with the addition of the colonnade in 1861. Broadstone Station is constructed of granite in a neo-Egyptian style. With Galway projected to become the main port for transatlantic passenger traffic between Europe and North America, the Midland successfully competed with its rival the Great Southern and Western Railway to reach it first. A special fourth class was introduced by the Midland for poor migrants from...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=11818614