Dublin Harcourt Street

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Name and dates

Dublin Harcourt Street (1859-1958)

Opened on the Dublin and Wicklow Railway.




Dates

  /  /1859Dublin and Wicklow Railway
Dublin Harcourt Street terminus opened. Temporary terminus, Dublin Harcourt Road, closed.
  /  /1861Dublin and Wicklow Railway
Doubled from Dublin Harcourt Street to Shanganagh Junction [1st].
14/02/1900Dublin and Wicklow Railway
Train fails to slow sufficiently and crashes through the end screen of Dublin Harcourt Street station, at the buffer end, resulting in the locomotive hanging over Hatch Street.
  /10/1941Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
Trains from Wexford had used Dublin Harcourt Street, that route bring considered the main line. From this date the coastal route via Dun Laoghaire to Dublin Westland Row becomes the main line.
31/12/1958Dublin and Wicklow Railway
Closed to passengers between Dublin Harcourt Street and Shanganagh Junction [2nd]. Stations closed at Dublin Harcourt Street, Ranelagh and Rathmines, Milltown [Ireland] , Dundrum, Stillorgan, Foxrock, Carrickmines, Shankill [1st].
30/06/2004Green Line (LUAS)
Opened from St Stephen's Green [Tram] to Sandyford [Tram], much of the route on the course of the former Dublin and Wicklow Railway line between Dublin Harcourt Street and Sandyford.