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Luas Stop for Leopardstown Racecourse

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  • 24-11-2010 8:33pm
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    LFC5Times
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    Hi,

    Just wondering which stop would you best getting off at for Leopardstown Races?

    Thanks


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    Cookie_Monster
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    Sandyford and a five minute walk


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    Fratton Fred
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    Am I missing something, or are two of the new Luas stops in the middle of fields?


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    Cookie_Monster
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Am I missing something, or are two of the new Luas stops in the middle of fields?

    pretty much

    Brides Glen: half built industrial estate and wasteground with a lake
    Cherrywood: One set of apartment blocks and wasteground
    Laughanstown: development never started, field
    Future Stop: fields
    Carrackmines: Some local housing estates, not a whole lot
    Future Stop: not much
    Ballyogan wood: new housing estate, older housing estate, lots of semi built apts
    All the rest: lots of semi built apartments schemes but slightly more developed


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    dynamick
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    I think Central Park may be best for the racecourse. There's a pedestrian shortcut to the east of the station into Leopardstown hospital, cut south through the hospital around the back of Microsoft and there's a footpath into the racecourse. It's not that well known.


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    Fratton Fred
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    pretty much

    Brides Glen: half built industrial estate and wasteground with a lake
    Cherrywood: One set of apartment blocks and wasteground
    Laughanstown: development never started, field
    Future Stop: fields
    Carrackmines: Some local housing estates, not a whole lot
    Future Stop: not much
    Ballyogan wood: new housing estate, older housing estate, lots of semi built apts
    All the rest: lots of semi built apartments schemes but slightly more developed

    That's pretty much my observation of it. I wad a bit surprised that the Carrickmines stop is the other side of the motorway to what I would call Carrickmines as well. Still, I suppose anyone getting off at Stillorgan and heading for the leisure plex is in for a bit of a shock as well.


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    Cookie_Monster
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    That's pretty much my observation of it. I wad a bit surprised that the Carrickmines stop is the other side of the motorway to what I would call Carrickmines as well. Still, I suppose anyone getting off at Stillorgan and heading for the leisure plex is in for a bit of a shock as well.

    Ballyogan Wood should be Carrickmines I reckon and Carrickmines something else, not sure what though


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    musedcitizen
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    The planners are a shower of knob heads


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    me-skywalker
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    Yea have to get off at Ballyogan Wood rather than Carrickmines if heading into the retail park... strange planning... or terrible planning!Still happy we got it though!


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    uch
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    That's pretty much my observation of it. I wad a bit surprised that the Carrickmines stop is the other side of the motorway to what I would call Carrickmines as well. Still, I suppose anyone getting off at Stillorgan and heading for the leisure plex is in for a bit of a shock as well.



    Fred the station is on the Site of the Old Carrickmines station on the Dublin Wicklow & Wexford's mainline from Harcourt Street to Bray, where you cross the motorway when this station was in use on the old service was just farmland, have a look at this site, has some interesting photo's of old stations.

    http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20C/Carrickmines/IrishRailwayStations.html

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