Tara Street railway station

Not to be confused with Tara Station.

Tara Street
Sráid na Teamhrach
Tara Street station
Location
Place	Dublin (George's Quay)
Local authority	Dublin City Council
Operations
Station code	124
Platforms in use	2
History
1 May 1891	Station opens
Iarnród Éireann - Ireland railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Tara Street sign, (Irish: Sráid na Teamhrach)

Tara Street Station

Tara Street (Irish: Sráid na Teamhrach) is the 3rd busiest railway station in Ireland^{[citation needed]}, with over 25,000 passengers using it daily. The station is arguably the closest station to the Dublin city centre and certainly is the closest to O'Connell Bridge.

This station is built on the 'Loop Line' which was constructed towards the end of the 19th century by the City of Dublin Junction Railway. This line made the connection between the Dublin & Kingstown terminus at Westland Row (now Pearse Station) and Amiens St (now Connolly Station) Great Northern Railway (Ireland) and linked into the Midland Great Western freight line thus joining up all the main railways in Dublin. The station was opened on 1 May 1891.^[1]

The station has two through platforms elevated above street level with ticket areas, retail outlets, etc. at street level. The platform retaining walls, the stairwells and canopies were originally timber planking but upgraded to include escalators and fibreglass panels in the 1970s and 1980s. More recent additions have seen new stairwells installed and platforms lengthened to reflect the increasing throughput of passengers. There are proposals to build in the airspace above the station and adjacent property has been acquired for this purpose.

It deals with mainly Dublin Area Rapid Transit trains, although longer distance trains for Arklow and Rosslare Europort also stop at the station as do commuter services to Maynooth and the western suburbs, and Balbriggan, Drogheda and Dundalk on the former GNR(I) mainline as these towns develop as dormitory suburbs for the City.

Preceding station	Iarnród Éireann			Following station
Dublin Connolly		Intercity Dublin-Rosslare		Dublin Pearse
Dublin Connolly		Commuter Northern Commuter		Dublin Pearse
		Commuter South Eastern Commuter
Dublin Connolly		Commuter Western Commuter (City Branch)		Dublin Pearse
		DART Trans-Dublin

Redevelopment

Tara Street is to go under a major redevelopment soon.^[when?] The new plans include the building of a new office block, including a newly built building. It will increase DART journeys from 12 to 20 trains an hour each way. It is currently the third out of Dublin's four main railway stations to be redeveloped.

External links

• Irish Rail information on Tara Street

References

1. ^ "Tara Street station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-03. 

Coordinates: 53°20′48″N 6°15′15″W / 53.34676°N 6.25414°W / 53.34676; -6.25414