Sydney Parade railway station

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This article is about the railway station in Dublin. For the station in Sydney (Australia), see Central railway station, Sydney.

Sydney Parade railway station (Irish: Stáisiún Pharáid Sydney) is located at Sydney Parade Avenue in Dublin, Ireland.

The station opened in January 1835^[1] as a halt on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. In 1852, it was upgraded to a full station leading to shelters, stone platforms, and a footbridge.

The station was closed in 1960 and reopened in 1972. It serves the southern end of Dublin 4, St Vincent's Hospital at Elm Park, the RTÉ Radio & Television studios at Montrose, Donnybrook and has a bus connection with the University College of Dublin campus at Belfield.

The alternative spelling ‘Sidney Parade’ is also in common usage.

[edit] Literary references

A crucial incident in A Painful Case by James Joyce occurs here, in his collection Dubliners.

The Sydney Parade station has become commonly referenced to in youth culture in Dublin, especially within the general area of south Dublin city for its reference in the title of the bestselling book "Should Have Got Off At Sydney Parade" authored under the pen-name Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

Sydney Parade is also the name of an American rock and roll band.^{[citation needed]}. Michael O'Brien once trained a race horse called Sydney Parade.