Dublin's Railway Termini: Harcourt Street Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 10/14/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Built in 1859 as a railway terminus, Harcourt Street Station was in use for almost exactly 100 years closing in 1959. A monumental design on a plinth of steps, with a central monumental arched flanked by two colonnades of columns - the original platforms were at first floor level as the railway line was built on an embankment. The station design is characterised by large simple details such as the cobells 'supporting' the central portico above the paired columns.

Beneath the station shed are excellent arched vaults originally designed as a bonded spirit store and now housing a wine merchants and one of Dublin's trendiest nightspots. The main front part of the building has recently been renovated and cleaned and is now an enormous bar which looks and feels bigger that the external dimensions of the station would suggest. The bar design manages to be sympathetic to the original design suggesting a large 'Gentleman's Club' of the Victorian era without descending to pastiche. It is worth having a look inside to try to imagine how the station looked in its glory days.

The rear of the station has various store buildings which were accessible from a raised ramp off Harcourt Road. Due for redevelopment, these stores are quite large containing many brick archways from area to area and were used by Dunlop for many years.

A famous incident in the station's history occured on February 14 1900, when a train from Enniscorthy failed to stop and went through the buffers and the wall of the station, sending debris over Hatch Street. Nobody was killed, though the driver, William Hyland, suffered some injuries.



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Irish-Architecture.com

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