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The service makes up the core of Dublin's suburban railway network, stretching from Greystones, County Wicklow, in the south to Howth and Malahide in north County Dublin. The DART serves 31 stations and consists of 53 route kilometres of electrified railway (46 km (29 mi) double track, 7 km (4.3 mi) single), and carries in the region of 20 ...
Northern: This route operates from Dublin to Dundalk, with its central terminus at Dublin Connolly. The route is shared as far as Malahide with the DART service. The trains run on the Dublin–Belfast line. South Eastern: This route operates from Dublin to Gorey, with its terminus at Connolly Station, and is shared with the DART as far as ...
To the south of the station lies Malahide Hill, the railway passing through a cutting about a 1 mile (1.6 km) in length and up to c.40 feet (12 m) deep. [ 2 ] Just to the north of the station, the line crosses the Broadmeadow viaduct which is 164m long and is the most noticeable part of the Malahide Estuary.
The station is situated just north of Fairview DART depot. It was built to serve the densely populated areas about, and also East Point Business Park and was opened on 1 September 1997. The station has a car park and is served by a shuttle to the East Point Business Park; it is also the terminus of the 104 bus operated by Go-Ahead Ireland ...
In 2000, the government of the Republic of Ireland developed a National Development Plan, which has seen major investment in infrastructure.Almost the entire railway network, including the Belfast–Dublin line as far as the border, has been upgraded to continuous welded rail, while signalling is controlled using the Centralised Traffic Control system located at Dublin Connolly station.
The line speed in Donabate is 90 mph, the highest on the Dublin-Belfast railway line and the highest permittable speed of the DeDietrich coaches. The station has two lifts and a footbridge connecting Platforms 1 and 2. In 2015, Irish Rail closed the toilets at the station as part of a cost-cutting measure. [1]
Two ticket vending machines are available and sell all DART and Commuter tickets as well as LEAP cards. [citation needed] The station provides a car park for commuters. [2] Since the inception of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) service in 1984, all DART services stop at Shankill. [citation needed]
The station opened on 1 May 1891. It is on the 'Loop Line' which was constructed towards the end of the 19th century by the City of Dublin Junction Railway, connecting the Dublin & Kingstown terminus at Westland Row (now Pearse Station) and Amiens St (now Connolly Station) on the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), and linked into the Midland Great Western freight line, thus joining up all the ...