Sydney Parade Railway Station () is a suburban stationlocated on Sydney Parade Avenue in

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, Ireland.

History

The station opened on 1 January 1835, as a halt on the

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. In 1852, it was upgraded to a full station with the construction of shelters, stone platforms and a footbridge. It was named after

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. The station was closed between 12 September 1960 and 6 June 1972. It was electrified in 1984 with the launch of DART services.

Location and access

Sydney Parade serves the southern end of

, St Vincent's Hospital at Elm Park and the

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Radio and Television studios at Montrose, Donnybrook. There is a

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with code XR-004 at the northern end of the station. The information office is open at various times between 06:00-00:00, Monday to Friday. It is unstaffed on Saturday and Sunday. SydneyParadePlaque

Transport services

Directly outside the station are

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stops for the following routes: *

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route 47 from Poolbeg Street to Belarmine, via UCD * UCD Shuttle, from the station to UCD Belfield Campus (term time only) In addition, a number of bus services stop on Merrion Road, located 350 m from the station. * Dublin Bus route 4 from Harristown to Monkstown * Dublin Bus routes 7 / 7A from

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to Bride's Glen /

Loughlinstown Loughlinstown () is a southern Dublin suburb, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on the N11 national road. Loughlinstown is the location of St. Columcille's Hospital, which serves both south Dublin and Wicklow. The European Foundation for ...

. * Dublin Bus 7N Nitelink from

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city centre to Shankill (Friday & Saturday only) * Dublin Bus 84N Nitelink from Dublin city centre to

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(Friday & Saturday only) *

Aircoach First Bus Ireland Limited trading as Aircoach is an Ireland-based subsidiary company of FirstGroup. It provides airport express coach services from Cork, Belfast, Derry, Southside Dublin and Dublin to Dublin Airport and from Derry to Belfast ...

route 703 from

Killiney Killiney () is an affluent coastal suburb on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. It lies south of Dalkey, east and northeast of Ballybrack and Sallynoggin and north of Shankill, in the local government area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown within ...

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* Aircoach route 702 from Greystones to Dublin Airport

Literary references

* A crucial incident in the story " A Painful Case" by

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...

(from his collection ''

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'') occurs here. * The station is mentioned in the title of the bestselling book '' Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade'' authored under the pen-name

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy South County Dublin rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the ''Sunday Tribune'' newspaper and late ...

. * The station is mentioned in the 2023 novel Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine.

References

External links

Irish Rail Sydney Parade Station Website
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