Broombridge railway station

Broombridge Droichead Broome
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( Spencer Dock) The Royal Canal Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Dublin Heuston and Tallaght Loopline Bridge Tara Street Dublin Pearse

Luas Connection

Luas Cross City
Green Line extension
Legend
Broombridge 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

• List of railway stations in Ireland

References

External links

• Irish Rail Broombridge Station Website
• Eiretrains - Broombridge Station
• LUAS Cross City Line Project Website

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
	From 2017
Cabra		Green Line		Terminus