Broombridge railway station

Broombridge
Droichead Broome
Iarnród Éireann
Location Cabra
Ireland
Coordinates 53°22′22″N 6°17′58″W / 53.3727°N 6.2995°W / 53.3727; -6.2995Coordinates: 53°22′22″N 6°17′58″W / 53.3727°N 6.2995°W / 53.3727; -6.2995
Owned by Iarnród Éireann
Operated by Iarnród Éireann
Platforms 2
Construction
Structure type At-grade
Other information
Station code BBRDG
Fare zone Suburban 1
Key dates
2 July 1990 Station opens
2017 Luas services expected to commence

Broombridge is a railway station serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland. It lies on the southern bank of the Royal Canal at the western end of what had been Liffey Junction station on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway. It takes its name from Broome Bridge, which crosses the canal, a place best known as where William Rowan Hamilton discovered the mathematical notion of quaternions. A plaque on the adjacent canal bridge commemorates this.

Description

The station was opened on 2 July 1990,[1] with two "accessible" platforms.[2] It is the last station approaching Dublin served by both branches of the Western Commuter line, before the line splits between trains heading to Connolly Station and those going to Docklands.The station is unmanned and has been subject to vandalism significant and sustained enough for Iarnród Éireann to be concerned and questions asked about it in the Dáil.[3][4] The lack of shelter for passengers or seating facilities was similarly questioned,[5] and in 2012, additional security measures added and some seating and decoration added in advance of the station's redesign as part of the Luas Cross City project. The station is expected to be fully rebuilt in 2016.

Western Commuter

Legend
Dublin–Sligo Line
Mullingar
Enfield
Kilcock
Maynooth
Leixlip Louisa Bridge
Leixlip Confey
M3 Parkway
Dunboyne
Hansfield
Docklands branch
Clonsilla
Coolmine
Castleknock
Navan Road Parkway
Ashtown
Broombridge
to Liffey Junction & Dublin Broadstone
closed 1937

The Royal Canal

Phoenix Park Tunnel
to Dublin Heuston

Drumcondra
Docklands(Luas Spencer Dock)
The Royal Canal

Dublin Connolly Luas
Luas Red Line
to Dublin Heuston and Tallaght
Loopline Bridge
Tara Street
Dublin Pearse

Luas Connection

Luas Cross City

Green Line extension
Legend
BroombridgeIarnród Éireann
Cabra
Phibsborough
Grangegorman
Broadstone - D.I.T.
Dominick Street

Cathal Brugha Street

Parnell Street

O'Connell Street Upper

O'Connell Street - GPO

Marlborough Street

Red Line
Abbey Street
River Liffey
O'Connell Bridge ┃ Rosie Hackett Bridge

Westmoreland Street

Trinity
Dawson Street
St Stephen's Green
Green Line to Bride's Glen

The Luas Broombridge interchange station will be a terminus of the Luas Green Line, once the planned Cross City extension is complete. In November 2011, the government announced in its 2012–2016 Infrastructure and Capital Investment plan that the project to link the Red and Green lines, was to proceed.[6][7] Construction work for a key part of the line infrastructure, the Rosie Hackett Bridge across the River Liffey, began in April 2012,[8] and a Railway Order was granted for the new line on 3 August 2012. Work on building the line commenced in June 2013, with services planned to start in 2017.[9]

See also

References

Preceding station   Iarnród Éireann   Following station
Drumcondra   Commuter
Western Commuter
(City Branch)
  Ashtown
Docklands   Commuter
Western Commuter
(Docklands Branch)
 
  Future  
Drumcondra   DART
Line 1
  Ashtown
Luas Luas
  From 2017  
Cabra   Green Line   Terminus
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