Pearse St Station roof

Rashers72

Anyone got any updates on it's redevelopment? Such huge potential to make this station a lot more inviting, but of course requires funding. They did a good job on Connolly, although lack of maintenance there has led to big leaks during rainfall.

highdef

Rashers72 wrote: »

Anyone got any updates on it's redevelopment? Such huge potential to make this station a lot more inviting, but of course requires funding. They did a good job on Connolly, although lack of maintenance there has led to big leaks during rainfall.

Surely you mean Westland Row Station, if you're referring to the station by it's old name when it was named after the street it's situated on :P

Haven't heard anything but agree that this railway station has so much potential to be a much nicer place.

Banjoxed

highdef wrote: »

Surely you mean Westland Row Station, if you're referring to the station by it's old name when it was named after the street it's situated on :P

Haven't heard anything but agree that this railway station has so much potential to be a much nicer place.

ISTR the common misnomer "Pearse Street Station" turned up in the Railway Timetable appendix to the Provincial Bus Timetable once

'Tis "Pearse Station" or, pre-1966, "Westland Row Station".

I have heard Connolly referred to as "Connolly Street Station"..

Infini

Money must've gone missing..... "again" -_-. Honestly that roof has been falling apart for years and nothing proper seems to get done about it.

tabbey

Am I mistaken in thinking that the overall roof of Pearse Station, Westland Row was refurbished a few years ago?

The perception people have in this regard is that the netting to prevent birds getting into the roof,detracts from the otherwise clear glazing.

tabbey

Banjoxed wrote: »

ISTR the common misnomer "Pearse Street Station" turned up in the Railway Timetable appendix to the Provincial Bus Timetable once

'Tis "Pearse Station" or, pre-1966, "Westland Row Station".

I have heard Connolly referred to as "Connolly Street Station"..

For most of it's life the station was known as Westland Row, and nothing else. In the last three years, there has also been an entrance to and from Pearse Street, however this is closed early and so must be considered the subsiduary entrance. There used be entrances from Sandwith Street and Upper Erne Street but the station never was called Westland Row, Sandwith Street and Erne Street.

As for calling the three Dublin mainline stations after 1916 leaders, I can see no merit whatever in applying such names to other locations; Mallin, Daly, O'Hanrahan, Plunkett, Kent, Casement, Ceannt, McDonagh, Clarke and McBride. none of them had anything to do with their stations, you might as well name them Castro or Kim Jung Il station.