Towns with more than one station?

lord lucan

df1985 wrote: »

Living in leixlip i can tell you it definately is a town by itself, not just a dublin suburb. There's a definate seperation from Lucan, the town has its own identity. All of leixlip is in Kildare, despite what a few fools in Confey like to believe, the bridge at the salmon leap is the border.

The springer is in Leixlip Co.Dublin as is Cooldrinagh. Strangely the Springfield have their address as Leixlip,Co.Kildare whilst the restaurant Becketts is Leixlip,Co. Dublin. The old Tara Co-op beside the springer had it's address as Lucan,Co.Dublin.

Victor

JHMEG wrote: »

Louisa Bridge (the original Leixlip Station) is but a short walk from Intel.

Not when Intel started in Leixlip (technically it started in Palmerstown). The ESSM building* (opposite Blakestown Level Crossing) is 1.6 km from Louisa Bridge.

I suspect I was the first one to suggest a station there in October 1990.


* Dark grey-roofed building here: http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,697995,737056,7

JHMEG

Victor wrote: »

Not when Intel started in Leixlip (technically it started in Palmerstown). The ESSM building* (opposite Blakestown Level Crossing) is 1.6 km from Louisa Bridge.

I know. Intel has grown up to the station.

I was in the station back in 2000 and there was a (defunct) ticket machine on the wall like you'd see on the London Underground, ie a button for every destination. Ever see that?

Victor wrote: »

http://ims0.osiemaps.ie

I christened that server, and it was never supposed to be public!

L1011

JHMEG wrote: »

I was in the station back in 2000 and there was a (defunct) ticket machine on the wall like you'd see on the London Underground, ie a button for every destination. Ever see that?

Maynooth had one of those or a very similar unit from when the square box block stations were built, IIRC behind a Coke machine in its later days.

Is Louisa Bridge the last station with its 80s station building extant?

edit: the tiny village of Burtonport had not two, but three stations in its hinterland - areas that'd be described as Burtonport or Acres rather than any of the surrounding towns. Its own, Dungloe Road and Kincasslagh Road. Not sure this quite counts...

lord lucan

MYOB wrote: »

Is Louisa Bridge the last station with its 80s station building extant?

Clonsilla,Maynooth and Ashtown had theirs demolished to make way for the new style IE stations. Not sure why they left the one at Louisa bridge? Wouldn't have cost much more to demolish as it's a pretty small structure. There was only a small ticket counter and office space,a gate and a turnstile in it.

Eiretrains

If it's not been mentioned already, the small town of Collooney had three stations, the Burma Rd station (Claremorris line, closed 1963) and the Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties station (closed 1957), and the Sligo line station which remains open of course.

Westport had a separate station down by the quay west of the town, though it was little used.

In later years Dundalk had two (it had a few others in the early days), the GNR station, and the Dundalk, Newry Greenore station on the west side of town, closed 1951.

Newry actually had three, at Edward St and Dublin Bridge for the GNR as mentioned, and a separate station again for the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore - forgot the name, something Quay Station?

Navan has had two, for the Midland Great Western titled 'Navan Junction', and the currently intact GNR one.

Most likely more, can't think of them, too tired.;)

Victor

Eiretrains wrote: »

Westport had a separate station down by the quay west of the town, though it was little used.

Westport and Westport Quay are quite separate 3+km apart.

http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,499339,784491,5

Eiretrains

Woops didn't know it was that long, thought it would be a short walk!:D

DWCommuter

Victor wrote: »

Westport and Westport Quay are quite separate 3+km apart.

http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,499339,784491,5

I find it both amusing and fascinating that you can nit pick over this particular issue and then make a crazy statement that insults an entire Kildare town.

foggy_lad

leixlip is only a village. it may have a large population but is still a village:) and the border between Dublin and Kildare runs between the old tara co-op place and the springfeild hotel, it starts in the co-op land but passses through the hotel grounds so part of the hotel could well be in Dublin and the old Co-op had lucan in its address because that is where its mail was sorted.

Victor

DWCommuter wrote: »

insults an entire Kildare town.

I don't know how to answer that.

JHMEG

MYOB wrote: »

Is Louisa Bridge the last station with its 80s station building extant?

It is. The new station was built over the track so there was no need to demolish the old one, and besides that, someone lives in it!

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/L/Leixlip/slides/The%20station%20building%20at%20Leixlip.html

JHMEG

Victor wrote: »

I don't know how to answer that.

Well, I did try to tell you!

lord lucan

JHMEG wrote: »

It is. The new station was built over the track so there was no need to demolish the old one, and besides that, someone lives in it!

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/L/Leixlip/slides/The%20station%20building%20at%20Leixlip.html

The grey square building to the right of the old MGWR one is the 1980's booking office that was built when suburban services were re-introduced in the '80's.

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/L/Leixlip/slides/Leixlip%20railway_station%20(1).html

Judgement Day

lord lucan wrote: »

Clonsilla,Maynooth and Ashtown had theirs demolished to make way for the new style IE stations. Not sure why they left the one at Louisa bridge? Wouldn't have cost much more to demolish as it's a pretty small structure. There was only a small ticket counter and office space,a gate and a turnstile in it.

Louisa Bridge was/is lived in by a former Board's servant.

JHMEG

lord lucan wrote: »

The grey square building to the right of the old MGWR one is the 1980's booking office that was built when suburban services were re-introduced in the '80's.

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/L/Leixlip/slides/Leixlip%20railway_station%20(1).html

Yeah, that's the one that has the London Underground-style ticket machine. It's attached to the main (old) station I think.

L1011

Judgement Day wrote: »

Louisa Bridge was/is lived in by a former Board's servant.

Thats the 18xx station building, not the 1980s square box. Which is still there too.

JHMEG

Judgement Day wrote: »

Louisa Bridge was/is lived in by a former Board's servant.

Who is that?

Victor

JHMEG wrote: »

Who is that?

I imagine a former CIÉ employee. Employees were given first refusal on a lot of surplus properties like station masters' houses and level crossing keepers' cottages.

JHMEG

Victor wrote: »

I imagine a former CIÉ employee. Employees were given first refusal on a lot of surplus properties like station masters' houses and level crossing keepers' cottages.

Ok, I took it up wrong. I thought "Board's" meant "Boards.ie"

Judgement Day

JHMEG wrote: »

Ok, I took it up wrong. I thought "Board's" meant "Boards.ie"

Sorry for the confusion - a Board's Servant is the term applied to describe CIE employees by 'certain' enthusiasts - hence my reluctance to name the individual at Lousia Bridge.