Docklands railway station

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Docklands
The station building as seen from Sheriff St, 23 March 2007.
Location
Place	Dublin Docklands
Local authority	Dublin City Council

Operations
Managed by	Iarnród Éireann
Platforms in use	2
History
12 March 2007	Station opens
Iarnród Éireann - Republic of Ireland railway stations
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Docklands Station (Stáisiún Ceantar Dugaí) is a new railway station serving the Dublin Docklands area in Ireland owned by Córas Iompair Éireann planned as part of the Government Transport 21 initiative.

The station was officially opened for commuter services by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at a temporary location on Sheriff Street in the North Wall area of Dublin's Northside on 12 March 2007^[1], construction groundbreaking having taken place on 9 March 2006^[2] with Transport Minister Martin Cullen. It is the first new heavy rail station in Dublin city centre since Tara Street opened in 1891. It was required because the nearby Connolly Station had reached capacity and could not support additional commuter services to County Meath.

The temporary two-platform station is one of two termini for the Western Commuter service run by Iarnród Éireann, with hourly services to Clonsilla on the Maynooth/Longford line. The station is linked to the city centre by the 93 and 151 bus services.

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The station will move to a permanent location in the Spencer Dock site as part of the Interconnector tunnel plan under the government's Transport 21 initiative, due to be completed by 2015. Planning conditions attached to the temporary site stated that it must be removed by May 2016.^[3] However, in March 2008, it was reported that the transport minister, Noel Dempsey, would allow CIÉ to seek new planning permission to keep the station on a permanent basis as a terminus for services from Maynooth, Navan and Kildare following his decision to allow the Railway Procurement Agency to utilise Broadstone station for extensions to the Luas.^[4]

The extended Luas Red Line will then connect with the station and rail services will run onwards to Pearse Station, linking with the DART, and to Heuston Station, linking with commuter services to Kildare and intercity services to the south.