Dublin and Wicklow Railway
Introduction
This line was promoted as the Great Western Railway supported Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway. (Known as the 'Three W's.) It received its Act in 1846 and opened in 1854.
Dates
| / /1851 | Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway renamed Dublin and Wicklow Railway. |
| / /1851 | Dublin, Dundrum and Rathfarnham Railway Taken over and built by the Dublin and Wicklow Railway providing a route independent of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway into Dublin. Contractor William Dargan. |
| 10/07/1854 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Dalkey [2nd] to Shanganagh Junction [1st] opened, contractor William Dargan. Killiney [1st] opened. |
| 10/07/1854 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Dublin Harcourt Road to Shanganagh Junction [1st] to Bray opened. Dublin Harcourt Road, Dundrum, Stillorgan, Carrickmines, Shankill [1st], Bray opened. Contractor William Dargan. |
| / /1855 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Former Dalkey Atmospheric Railway (Dublin and Kingstown Railway), Kingstown Harbour to Dalkey, re-opens as conventional railway. Line extended into Dalkey [2nd] . Kingstown Sandycove opened. |
| / /1855 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Obilisk Hill, Ballybrack [1st] opened. |
| / /1855 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Shanganagh Junction [1st] to Bray doubled. |
| / /1855 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Line extended from Bray south to Wicklow [1st]. (The first portion runs on clifftops along the coast to Delgany. The route was to avoid Bray Head.) Contractor William Dargan. |
| / /1856 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Closed between Kingstown Harbour and Dalkey [2nd] so that the line could be improved. Re-opened later in the year. |
| / /1856 | Dublin and Kingstown Railway Leased by the Dublin and Wicklow Railway. Continues to be operated independently. |
| / /1858 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Obilisk Hill, Killiney [1st] closed. |
| / /1858 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Killiney [2nd] opened. |
| / /1859 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Dublin Harcourt Street terminus opened. Temporary terminus, Dublin Harcourt Road, closed. |
| / /1860 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Milltown [Ireland] opened. |
| / /1860 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Renamed Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway. |
| / /1861 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Foxrock, Shanganagh Junction [1st] (station) opened. |
| / /1861 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Doubled from Dublin Harcourt Street to Shanganagh Junction [1st]. |
| / /1863 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Ballybrack [1st] closed, Ballybrack [2nd] opened. |
| / /1866 | Dublin and Kingstown Railway Act authorises a lease of 999 years by the Dublin and Wicklow Railway. Run as a single concern. |
| / /1867 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Derailment on viaduct at 'The Ram's Scalp'. Locomotive falls on west side, fortunately not the east where the line drops 100ft to the sea. |
| / /1867 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Killoughter closed. |
| / /1876 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Brabazon Tunnel [1st] replaced by Brabazon Tunnel [2nd] , a little further inland. |
| / /1877 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Shanganagh Junction [1st] (station) closed. |
| / /1877 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Shanganagh Junction [1st] remodelled. Additional track laid from the Kingstown line to allow independent access to Bray. |
| / /1879 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Dalkey [2nd] to Ballybrack [2nd] doubled. |
| / /1879 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Inland deviation north of Cable Rock Tunnel. |
| / /1881 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Kingstown Harbour (excluded) to Dalkey [2nd] doubled. |
| / /1882 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Killiney [2nd], Ballybrack [2nd] closed. Killiney and Ballybrack opened. |
| / /1886 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Delgany renamed Greystones and Dalgany. |
| / /1888 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Rathdown Deviation opened inland. |
| / /1893 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Foxrock provided with a Leopardstone course platform. |
| / /1893 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Wicklow [1st] closed. |
| / /1896 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Ranelagh and Rathmines opened. |
| 14/02/1900 | Dublin 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. |
| / /1910 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Woodbrook Halt [1st] opened just south of Shanganagh Junction [1st] |
| / /1914 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Greystones and Dalgany renamed Greystones. |
| /10/1915 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Deviation to the west opened between Killiney and Ballybrack and Bray, including a new Shanganagh Junction [2nd]. Woodbrook Halt [1st] closed and Woodbrook Halt [2nd] opened on deviation. The deviation was double track and north from the junction to Ballybrack [2nd] was doubled. |
| / /1917 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Rathdown Deviation replaced by 'Long tunnel' further inland. |
| / /1917 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Between 1917 and 1921 the Dublin and South Eastern Railway placed chained concrete block on the eastern side of the line for protection from the sea for 10 miles south from Greystones. |
| / /1921 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Killiney and Ballybrack renamed Killiney. |
| / /1925 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bray renamed Bri Chualann (Bray). |
| / /1927 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Second platform provided at Bri Chualann (Bray). |
| / /1932 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Drumm battery trains used on services. Designed by Dr James Drumm. |
| 31/12/1958 | Dublin 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]. |
| / /1960 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Woodbrook Halt [2nd] closed. |
| / /1964 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Kilcool closed. |
| / /1969 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Wicklow [1st] re-opens as Wicklow Murrough for Dublin trains. |
| / /1971 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Line moved several feet inland between milepost 18 and 19. |
| / /1976 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Wicklow Murrough closed. |
| / /1977 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Shankill opened on the route of the 1915 deviation just north of former Shanganagh Junction [2nd]. |
| / /1980 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Kilcool re-opened. |
| 30/06/2004 | Green 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. |
| 16/10/2010 | Green Line (LUAS) Tram route extended to Bride's Glen [Tram] (Cherrywood), some on the course of the former Dublin and Wicklow Railway. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Dublin to Bray
The former Harcourt Street station, terminus of the Dublin & South Eastern Railway, which closed on 31 December 1958 and is seen here in 1991. The ...Bill Roberton //1991
Junction opened 1854. Station at junction opened 1861 and closed 1877 (or 1863?). Public timetables 1862 only.
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This is a three platform station - two through platforms with three tracks between them (middle track is a bypass) and a bay platform at the south end.
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Kingstown to Dalkey
Realigned former route of the atmospheric railway. Dalkey station replaced.
Dalkey to Shanganagh Junction
Junction opened 1854. Station at junction opened 1861 and closed 1877 (or 1863?). Public timetables 1862 only.
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Bray to Wicklow
This is a three platform station - two through platforms with three tracks between them (middle track is a bypass) and a bay platform at the south end.
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Junction between the original course of the Dublin and Wicklow Railway to Wicklow Murrough and the extension to the south to Wexford (Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway).
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Shanganagh Deviation
Original junction opened 1854. Station at junction opened 1861 and closed 1877.
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