All aboard: Docklands station to open by 2007

RAIL services will be running in and out of Dublin’s new Docklands Station in 2007 taking 10,000 cars off the city streets, Transport Minister Martin Cullen said yesterday.

The development at Spencer Dock will bring an extra 20,000 passengers into the capital by train every day, with services to Maynooth, Co Kildare, running every 15 minutes.

“Docklands is an immediate, practical, value-for-money transport solution. Connolly Station cannot cater for any additional peak-time trains,” the minister said. “While the DART resignalling project, when completed, will allow for some additional services, we need a quicker solution. Docklands Station is that solution. With Docklands in place, we have a new station alongside Connolly and thereby get more people on more trains into the heart of the city.”