Safety of Pearse Station roof?

Tipsy Mac

I was in Pearse Station over the weekend and couldn't help notice the terrible state that the roof of the station is in, there's parts of the glass/perspex sheeting loose and other parts of roofing looking unstable. A while back the station was closed as some debris had fallen from the roof but it looks like the rest of it is not safe for commuters to be standing under.

icdg

Pearse Station in general is now the most decrepit of the three Dublin terminals, and in bad need of a makeover. Its getting a semi-one at the moment, to do with pre-work for the Interconnector (and there have been signs up recently for "Pearse Station Regeneration") but so far, the work seems to have consisted (from a public point of view) of closing Spar and filling in Platform 3, which was still nominally in use (if never by scheduled services) and publically accessible until the work started. The original five platform station now only has two active platfoms (Platform 5 was turned into a car park some years back, Platform 4 was still there until recently but unlike P3 was in no state to be used and now looks like it is also being filled in).

Whatever is being done - and I believe advance construction of Pearse Underground station is part of the work - I'm not sure the roof is being touched?

godtabh

It was closed recently during highwinds.

I've never seen anything happen there but it would be nice if the old roof could be restored

PRND

Restore it like St Pancras.

The only signs of the regeneration I have seen have been the boxes of entry barriers from Scheidt u. Bachmann.

Their first name is quite apt, given the quality of their product.

fh041205

It will be nice when they get the barriers in. Leaving the station is always troublesome because everyone has to pile through the one gate. As for the roof, its in a shambolic state. There are a lot of panels missing and it was indeed closed when part of the roof collapsed during high winds. I suspect it was just a panel that came loose and fell down.

PRND

I reckon the barriers will slow everything down and make things much more annoying.

I haven't seen them help things elsewhere.

Let's face it, the lads checking tickets let people quite quickly through. Perhaps not a thorough check but enough to put off any casual ticket evasion, which must amount for most of it.

Run_to_da_hills

Maybe if they put in a suspended ceiling in the place it would protect us from falling debris and pidgeon droppings.

markpb

fh041205 wrote: »

As for the roof, its in a shambolic state. There are a lot of panels missing and it was indeed closed when part of the roof collapsed during high winds. I suspect it was just a panel that came loose and fell down.

Ironically enough, the opposite happened. A sheet of glass fell off the brand spanking new Trinity building across the road. The Gardai said it was too dangerous to have people in the area so the Pearse was closed. The old crummy roof on Pearse was fine the whole time.

The place is a terrible dive though - it's dark, miserable, cold and generally feels like a dodgy back alley.

fh041205

markpb wrote: »

Ironically enough, the opposite happened. A sheet of glass fell off the brand spanking new Trinity building across the road. The Gardai said it was too dangerous to have people in the area so the Pearse was closed. The old crummy roof on Pearse was fine the whole time.

The place is a terrible dive though - it's dark, miserable, cold and generally feels like a dodgy back alley.

Yeah I remember that. Was that on the same day? Must have been. The newly opened Naughton institute wasn't it. So much for all this modern architecture garbage eh....

BostonB

I think the toliets are worse than those in trainspotting.

sdanseo

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Maybe if they put in a suspended ceiling in the place it would protect us from falling debris and pidgeon droppings.

Not a hope, the old roof would be lovely if restored lovingly. A miracle of engineering in its time and I'm still in awe of some of those massive roofs.

BostonB wrote: »

I think the toliets are worse than those in trainspotting.

Last time I was in them was years ago, are they still small, cramped, with purple/blue neon lights and looking and smelling generally like (what I can only imagine) a brothel does?

godtabh

sdonn_1 wrote: »

Last time I was in them was years ago, are they still small, cramped, with purple/blue neon lights and looking and smelling generally like (what I can only imagine) a brothel does?

Thats just piss.