Malahide railway station

Malahide railway station (Irish: Stáisiún Mhullach Íde) serves Malahide in Fingal (formerly north County Dublin).

Malahide Mullach Íde
Commuter service for Drogheda in 2007
General information
Location	Main Street, Malahide, County Dublin, K36 HC92 Ireland
Coordinates	53.4508°N 6.1564°W / 53.4508; -6.1564
Owned by	Iarnród Éireann
Operated by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Bus routes	9
Bus operators	Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland
Connections	32X 42 42d 102 102a 102c 102p 102t 142
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Yes
Other information
Station code	MHIDE
Fare zone	Suburban 2
History
Original company	Dublin and Drogheda Railway
Pre-grouping	Northern Railway of Ireland
Post-grouping	Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
Key dates
1844	Station opens
10 April 2000	DART services commence[citation needed]
Services Preceding station   Iarnród Éireann   Following station Portmarnock or Dublin Connolly   Commuter Northern Commuter   Donabate Portmarnock   DART Trans-Dublin   Terminus   Future   Portmarnock   DART Line 2   Terminus or Donabate
Iarnród Éireann CIÉ IÉ railway stations
Location Malahide Location within Ireland

v t e Northern Commuter
Legend
Belfast–Dublin line Newry ( one early-am weekday trip ) United Kingdom Ireland border Dundalk Clarke to Navan (freight only) Drogheda MacBride Laytown Mosney 2000 Gormanston Balbriggan Skerries Rush and Lusk Donabate Malahide Portmarnock Clongriffin DART Howth Branch Howth Junction & Donaghmede Kilbarrack Raheny Harmonstown Killester Clontarf Road The Royal Canal Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Tallaght or Saggart Loopline Bridge Tara Street Dublin Pearse Dublin-Rosslare line to Bray and Rosslare Europort

v t e Dublin Area Rapid Transit
Legend
Belfast–Dublin Main Line Malahide Portmarnock Clongriffin Howth Sutton Bayside Howth Junction & Donaghmede Kilbarrack Raheny Harmonstown Killester Clontarf Road Fairview Depot River Tolka Western Commuter & Sligo Line Docklands The Royal Canal Dublin Connolly   to Dublin Heuston Luas Red Line to The Point Loopline Bridge over River Liffey Tara Street Dublin Pearse Grand Canal Dock Lansdowne Road Sandymount Sydney Parade Booterstown Blackrock Seapoint Salthill & Monkstown Dún Laoghaire Mallin Sandycove & Glasthule Glenageary Dalkey Killiney Shankill Woodbrook (under construction) Bray Daly Greystones Dublin–Rosslare Main Line

Geography

The station lies on the Dublin to Belfast main line, 9 miles (14 km) from Dublin Connolly to the south, with Drogheda and Belfast approximately 23 miles (37 km) and 104 miles (167 km) to the north respectively.^[1]

To the south of the station lies Malahide Hill, the railway passing through a cutting about a 1 mile (1.6 km) in length and up to c.40 feet (12 m) deep.^[2]

Just to the north of the station, the line crosses the Broadmeadow viaduct which is 164m long and is the most noticeable part of the Malahide Estuary.

History

The station opened on 25 May 1844 as part of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway.^[a] Earlier, on 6 January 1844, a special train for people including Lords Eliot and Talbot, their wives and other persons gave rides up and down a completed section of track near Malahide.^[8]

George Papworth created an elaborate design for the main station building in 1851, in the event this was not built.^[7]

A set of company amalgamations occurred in 1875-6 with the station first coming under the Northern Railway Co. (Ireland) and into the Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRI) on 1 April 1876.^[9] From 1 October 1958 with the break up of the GNRI the station came under the remit of CIÉ.^[10]

The main station building in the general polychromatic brickwork style of William Hemingway Mills has been attributed various dates from c. 1851 to 1905.^[3][a]

Malahide became the northern extent of the electrified Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) system in 2000.^[11]

Goods services were withdrawn in December 1974. In 2009, Malahide became the temporary terminus of all direct services from Dublin as a consequence of the collapse of the Broadmeadow viaduct.^{[citation needed]}

Infrastructure

The station has two through lines and two platforms, the major one being on the east side which is the southbound track to Dublin. Entrance is via yellow brick polychrome style typical of Mills although some features are Malahide specific, notably the ornate wood sliding doors to the platform. The platform roof is supported by decorative ironwork. Access to the other platform is via a bridge with ironwork dating from the 1880s; this had to be raised to allow for the DART electrification extension with disability-accessible lifts newly fitted to the south side. The west platform retains a wooden shelter in mostly original condition. That platform has also been extended at some point but a standard GNR signal box has been retained, albeit boarded up.^[12]

Operation

The station is staffed between 05:45-00:30, Monday to Sunday and platform 1 (the eastern or southbound platform) is fully accessible. Platform 2 (the western or northbound platform) can be accessed by a footbridge (with lifts) from platform 1 or via steps to the public road.^[13]

Services

Malahide is both a terminus on the DART system and a station on Northern Commuter services.

Bus links

Go-Ahead Ireland operated bus route 102 links the station to Dublin Airport, Sutton railway station and parts of Malahide. In October 2013 a shuttle bus linking various areas of the town to the station was introduced. Numbered route 842, it operates in the morning and evening peaks Mondays to Fridays inclusive. The service was temporarily suspended at the start of January 2014.^[14][15]

Gallery

• 
  Footbridge at Malahide Station connecting platform 1 and platform 2
• 
  The main station building on the east side of the railway
• 
  Push-pull commuter train arrives in 1983 on its way to Dublin Pearse

See also

• List of railway stations in Ireland

References

Notes

1. Osgood indicates there was no (or minimal) station construction in 1844 but that it was open as a train stop at that date, with building infrastructure variously placed at between 1856 and 1901.^[3] She gives more precise details of what she claims are discrepancies of normally reliable sources on her 2019 blog entry "A Treat at Malahide".^[4] As of January 2022^[update] National Inventory of Architectural Heritage continues to attribute the station as an 1851 build to Papworth,^[5] while Archiseek has changed its attribution to Mills,^[6] while attributing an unbuilt 1851 design to Papworth.^[7]

Footnotes

1. Patterson 2003, pp. 221–222.
2. D&DR 1844, p. 31.
3. Osgood 2021, 0m.
4. Osgood 2019.
5. NIAH 2005.
6. archiseek 2021m.
7. archiseek 2021p.
8. Patterson 2003, p. 33.
9. Patterson 2003, p. 86.
10. Patterson 2003, p. 218.
11. Fingal Independent 2001.
12. Osgood 2021.
13. Irish Rail 2010.
14. North County Leader 2013.
15. Malahide Shuttle 2020.

Sources

• archiseek (2021m). "1903 — Malahide Railway Station". Archiseek. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
• archiseek (2021p). "1851 — Unbuilt railway station, Malahide Co. Dublin". Archiseek. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
• D&DR (1844). Handbook to the Dublin and Drogheda Railway. Dublin: N Walsh. OCLC 949843787.
• Fingal Independent (12 January 2001). "Anger at Donabate rail station pandemonium". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
• Irish Rail (2010). "Guide for Rail Passengers with Disabilities" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
• Malahide Shuttle (2020). "Latest news". Archived from the original on 3 February 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
• NIAH (7 June 2005). "Malahide Railway Station, Dublin Road, Malahide". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
• North County Leader (2013). "North County Leader". Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
• Osgood, Siobahn (1 May 2019). "A Treat at Malahide". Irish Railway Architecture. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
• Osgood, Siobahn (19 August 2021). Hidden Railway Heritage: Malahide DART Station. Iarnród Éireann. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021 – via Youtube.
• Patterson, Edward M. (2003) [1962]. The Great Northern Railway (Ireland). Lingfield: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-602-7.

External links

• Irish Rail Malahide Station Website
• Eiretrains - Malahide Station