Dunshaughlin railway station

Dunshaughlin railway station is a proposed railway station intended to serve the town of Dunshaughlin in County Meath.

Dublin to Navan Line
Year closed DART Line 2 to Hazelhatch to Howth Docklands ( Spencer Dock) to Dundalk • to Dublin Connolly Drumcondra Phoenix Park Tunnel to Dublin Heuston Royal Canal Dublin Broadstone 1937 Liffey Junction 1937 Broombridge Ashtown Navan Road Parkway M50 motorway Castleknock Coolmine Clonsilla to Sligo Royal Canal Hansfield Dunboyne M3 Parkway Phase 1 Phase 2 Batterstown 1947 Drumree 1947 Dunshaughlin planned Kilmessan Junction 1947 Kilmessan planned River Boyne Trim 1947 Athboy 1947 Bective 1947 Navan Central planned to Drogheda Navan Junction 1958 Tara Mine to Oldcastle Navan North planned Gibbstown 1947 Wilkinstown 1947 Nobber 1947 Kilmainham Wood 1947 Gypsum Industries 2001 Kingscourt 2001

The station had been planned to be built as part of the second phase of reinstatement of the Clonsilla-Navan line. However, as of 2012, these plans were deferred due to the reduction in the Exchequer capital investment programme.[1] Dunshauglin was intended to be the first station on the Phase 2 section of the route, after the M3 Parkway park and ride station. The proposed route plans include 34 km of railway line, with stations at Dunshaughlin, Kilmessan, Navan town centre and a further station on the northern edge of Navan.

Location

The route for Phase 2 was not to be finalised until March 2009;[2] it was intended that for the most part it would follow the disused route to Navan. However, there was debate over the location of Dunshauglin station. Iarnród Éireann, the Irish rail operator, favoured the existing route, which carries the railway line approximately 1.5 km to the west of the town, on the other side of the Dunshauglin interchange of the M3 motorway. A group of local developers in County Meath expressed a preference to see the railway line realigned to the east, putting the station within walking distance of the town, then proceeding via a bridge over the motorway back to the original rail alignment.[3]

Preceding station		Iarnród Éireann		Following station
	Future
M3 Parkway		Commuter Western Commuter (Dublin-Navan)		Kilmessan

External links

• Irish Rail Navan Railway Line - General Information

References

1. "Irish Rail Navan Railway Line - General Information". Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
2. Final decision on Dunshaughlin station site due in March Archived 2008-12-07 at the Wayback Machine - navanrailwayproject.com, 20/10/08
3. Plan unveiled to re-route rail line to Dunshaughlin Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine - Meath Chronicle, 17/09/08