Dublin Heuston

Location type


Names and dates

Dublin Kingsbridge (1846-1966)
Dublin Heuston (1966-)

Opened on the Great Southern and Western Railway.




Dates

  /  /1821Dublin Kings Bridge
Bridge opened. Dublin Kingsbridge (Dublin Heuston since 1966) was later built alongside.
  /  /1844Great Southern and Western Railway
Authorised. Line to run from Dublin Kingsbridge (Dublin Heuston) to Cashel, County Tipperary, with a branch to Carlow. Contractors McCormick and William Dargan.
04/08/1846Great Southern and Western Railway
Line opened between Dublin Kingsbridge to Carlow, 56 miles.
  /  /1847Great Southern and Western Railway
Dublin Kingsbridge goods yard laid in.
  /  /1852Great Southern and Western Railway
Inchicore Workshops starts building locomotives. Works is 1.75 miles from Dublin Kingsbridge.
  /  /1872North Wall Extension (Great Southern and Western Railway)
Act for line from Islandbridge Junction (close to Dublin Kingsbridge) to Glasnevin Junction (North Wall Extension (Midland Great Western Railway)) then following that line and a short link from West Road Junction to Church Road Junction (Drogheda Curve (Dublin and Drogheda Railway and London and North Western Railway)).
  /  /1926Dublin United Tramways Co
Tram line siding installed in Dublin Kingsbridge to allow direct exchange with trains.