(rshsdepot) Broadstone Station (Dublin), Ireland to Reopen after 70 Years

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From the Daily Mail.
 
Bernie Wagenblast
 
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Back on Track After 70 Years
 
IRELAND'S oldest train station is to be put back on track more  than 70 years 
after the last train left its platform. 
 
Broadstone Station, in Dublin's north inner city, will reopen in 2010, when  
it will serve up to 5,000 commuters every hour.  
Iarnrod Eireann's decision to reopen the impressive station was welcomed by  
architecture enthusiasts all over the city.  
They feel that the neo-Egyptian style building is currently going to waste as 
 a CIE office block. However, plans show that Dublin Bus will retain its  
headquarters in the main part of the building.  
The protected structure was originally closed to passengers in January 1937,  
but will open again in three years' time to service routes to commuter towns  
such as Maynooth, Kildare, Dunboyne and Clonsilla.  
New tracks, measuring 2.5 kilometres, will be laid between Broadstone Station 
 and Liffey Junction, where they will then connect with the Maynooth line. 
New  ticket offices, electronic signalling and passenger facilities will bring 
the  total cost of the project up to an estimated 35million.  
'We have such huge growth at the minute that we need all the city centre  
capacity possible,' said an Iarnrod Eireann spokesman. 'The tracks servicing the  
line are largely intact but a lot of work needs to be done.' Iarnrod Eireann 
has  also said that Broadstone Station will have a large catchment area thanks 
to its  city centre location.  
A Luas line is to be extended to the station by 2012. 




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