Bray Daly railway station

Bray (Daly) Railway Station (Stáisiún Bhré / Uí Dhálaigh in Irish) is a station situated in Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is located adjacent to Bray seafront and is 600 m from Bray Main Street via Florence Road or Quinsborough Road.

Bray Daly

Bré Uí Dhálaigh
An IE 29000 Class at Bray Daly station
LocationFlorence Road, Bray, County Wicklow, A98 C8X4
Republic of Ireland
Coordinates53°12′15″N 6°6′1″W
Owned byIarnród Éireann
Operated byIarnród Éireann
Platforms3 (only 2 see regular use)
Bus routes45a, 84, 84a, 184, 143, 144, 155, 185
Bus operatorsDublin Bus
Go-Ahead Ireland
Finnegan Bray
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Other information
Station codeBRAY
Fare zoneSuburban 3
History
Electrified1984
Original companyDublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
Pre-groupingDublin and South Eastern Railway
Post-groupingGreat Southern Railways
Key dates
10 July 1854Station opens, as Bray
14 July 1924Station renamed Bri Chualann (Bray)
c.1930Station renamed Bray
10 April 1966Station renamed Bray Daly
2 December 1974Station closes to goods traffic
1983Station upgraded
Services
Preceding station   Iarnród Éireann   Following station
Dún Laoghaire
Mallin		   InterCity
Dublin-Rosslare railway line		   Greystones
  Commuter
South Eastern Commuter		  
Dún Laoghaire Mallin   Commuter
Northern Commuter
Peak times only		   Terminus
  Commuter
Western Commuter
(City Branch)
Peak times only		  
Shankill   DART
Trans-Dublin		   Greystones or Terminus
Disused railways
Woodbrook
Line open, station closed		   Dublin and South Eastern Railway
Dublin-Rosslare		   Bray Cove Halt
Line open, station closed
Woodbrook
Line and station closed		   Dublin and South Eastern Railway
Dublin-Bray		   Terminus
Mural in Bray Daly Station
A panel representing every decade
Distinctive outline of Bray Head in the background

Bray marks the end of the double track line from Dublin and is the end point for most suburban services, with train stabling facilities convenient to the station.

Routes

DART

From the inception of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) service in 1984 until its extension south to Greystones in 2000, Bray was the southern terminus, with a large number of sidings just south of the station for stabling trains. Although some DARTs now continue southwards to Greystones, the majority still terminate in Bray. Northbound DART services towards Howth and Malahide usually start from Bray, with some originating from Greystones. From Bray southbound the line becomes single track.

Other services

Bray is on the intercity Dublin-Rosslare and commuter Dundalk-Dublin-Arklow-Gorey routes, and all trains on these routes stop here. They often run non-stop between Bray, Dun Laoghaire and Dublin Pearse, and freight and maintenance trains pass through Bray without stopping.

Station building & history

The station was opened on 10 July 1854 [1] following the extension of the railway line south from Dalkey. The extension of the line around Bray Head to Greystones in 1855 was not accompanied by any additional works at Bray station, so from then until 1928 the station had one through platform serving both southbound through trains and northbound trains to both Harcourt Street, Westland Row (Pearse) and Amiens Street (Connolly). As suburban services from Dublin became more frequent, this made the station extremely difficult to work, even with the provision of a bay platform at the south end for shuttle services to Greystones.

Services to Harcourt Street ceased in 1959 with the closure of the Harcourt Street line.

It was given the name Daly on 10 April 1966, 50 years after the Easter Rising, when Córas Iompair Éireann renamed 15 major stations after Republican leaders. It is named in honour of Edward Daly, a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Between the 1984 inauguration of DART and November 1990, a diesel shuttle train (initially a 201 class or 121 class locomotive with former AEC railcars converted to push–pull stock, later an 80 class train leased from Northern Ireland Railways) operated between Bray and Greystones, connecting with DART services.[2] A similar service using a steam railmotor had operated briefly between 1906 and 1908.[3]

The station houses a bar (closed), shop, coffee stall, ticket office, automated teller machine (ATM) and unheated public toilets. There is a staff room for drivers. Sheltered bicycle parking is located inside the station. Disabled access to platform 2 on the east side of the station is through a new gate on that side, but lifts are also provided on the footbridge. The redevelopment that saw the installation of these lifts were part of Iarnród Éireann's Dart Upgrade project in the early 2000s to improve stations and facilities on the DART line. In addition to the lifts, the distinctive pyramid-style glass roof over platform 2 was renovated, as was the main station building.

The ticket office is open between 07:00-10:00, Monday to Friday.

Platforms

Since it was rebuilt in 1928, the station has two main platforms; platform 1 on the west side of the station near the main entrance, and platform 2 over the footbridge on the east side of the station. Although platform 1 is generally used for northbound services and platform 2 for southbound services and terminating trains, the roles are frequently reversed so as to accommodate as many services as possible. Platform 3, the platform formerly used for the Greystones diesel shuttle, is very seldom used as it has no northbound capacity - it ends directly south of the station building. It is used for cleaning trains and occasionally for DART services to and from Greystones.

Picture series

One of the more distinctive elements of Bray Daly Station is the series of paintings on platform 2. Beginning with a painting of the opening ceremony in 1852, the series runs along the length of the platform, documenting both Irish history and Irish railway history up to the present day. Various carriages, locomotives, and characters can be seen in the pictures, including Oscar Wilde, British soldiers in 1916, James Joyce in the 1940s, a hippy couple in the 1960s, and the introduction of the DART service in 1984. Many of these panels were in need of repair as lime was seeping through the plaster. In 2008 the original artist began a mosaic replacement programme for the mural.

Road transport services

Directly outside the station are bus stops for Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and Finnegan Bray routes:

Dublin Bus Routes:

Go-Ahead Ireland routes:

Finnegan Bray routes:

In addition, a number of bus services stop at Bray Main Street, located 600m from the station.

There is also busy taxi rank outside the station, a large car park adjacent to the station, and a pickup lane for collecting passengers by car.

A tiny Chinatown adjoins the station in Albert Walk with restaurants, groceries and other shops.

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See also

References
  1. "Wellingtonbridge station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  2. Whistler, A.J. (January 1995). "Greystones Shuttle". Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society. 19 (127): 54–67.
  3. Collins, Michael (June 2008). "Irish steam rail-motors and railcars". Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society. 23 (166): 272–91.
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