Raising of DART station platforms

Sea point

Does anyone know when the DART station platforms were raised 3 feet above the railway tracks ? Before the DART were the platforms at track level ?

Captain Chaos

Sea point wrote: »

Does anyone know when the DART station platforms were raised 3 feet above the railway tracks ? Before the DART were the platforms at track level ?

No, the platforms were always raised, and they were raised even further in the late '90s and early 2000's to enable wheelchairs to board trains easier. Maybe pre 1940 there were possibly a few at track level.

Sea point

Okay, so the platforms were at track level when the railway line was built in 1834 ? Any idea when they started to raise the platforms at places like Blackrock and Salthill ?

goingnowhere

Blackrock had basically no platforms from opening in 1834, modest height platform about 18 inches added later. No footbridge back then you crossed by a step in the platform. Full height platforms were added later well before the DART

Salthill before closure did have reasonably normal height platforms.

During the DART project there was a slight raising of the track in the area to protect from high tides

Sam Russell

There were raised platforms in the fifties.