Dunshaughlin railway station

Dublin to Navan Line
Legend
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 future Kilmessan Junction 1947 Kilmessan future River Boyne Trim 1947 Athboy 1947 Bective 1947 Navan Central future to Drogheda Navan Junction 1958 Tara Mine to Oldcastle Navan North future Gibbstown 1947 Wilkinstown 1947 Nobber 1947 Kilmainham Wood 1947 Gypsum Industries 2001 Kingscourt 2001

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

The station is planned to be built as part of the second phase of reinstatement of the Clonsilla-Navan line but at present been deferred due to the reduction in the Exchequer capital investment programme.^[1] Dunshauglin will be the first station on the Phase 2 section of the route, after the M3 Parkway park and ride station. The proposed route consists of 34 km of railway line with stations located 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 is intended that for the most part it will follow the disused route to Navan. However, there has been debate over the location of Dunshauglin station. Iarnród Éireann, the Irish rail operator, favours 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 would prefer 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] The decision on the eventual location of the station will be taken with the decision on the route of the line itself.

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
2. ↑ Final decision on Dunshaughlin station site due in March - navanrailwayproject.com, 20/10/08
3. ↑ Plan unveiled to re-route rail line to Dunshaughlin - Meath Chronicle, 17/09/08