Why and when did Dún Laoghaire become Mallin?

dewsbury · 15-02-2008 07:53PM #1

Anybody else notice this?

Dun Laoghaire dart station is also called Mallin on some of the notices in the station.

When did this happen ?
What does it mean?

mikemac · 15-02-2008 08:02PM

A better question would be when Dun Laoghaire become know as
Dub Laoghaire? Check your title OP

That's the name since 1966 and just people don't tend to use it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
In 1966 it was the 50th anniversary of 1916 and major railway stations were named after the leaders.
Amiens St became Connolly St, Cork became Kent St and Kingsbrigde became Heuston as examples.

Dun Laoighaire station is named after Michael Mallin so it is Mallin Station.
Another not well known example is Daly Station is Bray. Nobody seems to use that name though it's probably on signs around the place

Now pass on this info and impress your mates!

jjbrien · 15-02-2008 11:28PM

micmclo wrote: »

A better question would be when Dun Laoghaire become know as
Dub Laoghaire? Check your title OP

That's the name since 1966 and just people don't tend to use it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
In 1966 it was the 50th anniversary of 1916 and major railway stations were named after the leaders.
Amiens St became Connolly St, Cork became Kent St and Kingsbrigde became Heuston as examples.

Dun Laoighaire station is named after Michael Mallin so it is Mallin Station.
Another not well known example is Daly Station is Bray. Nobody seems to use that name though it's probably on signs around the place

Now pass on this info and impress your mates!

And Waterford is Plunket, Limerick is Colbert, Sligo is Mac Diarmada and Galway is Ceannt. The only names that are used every day is Pearse, Connolly or Heuston. I cant imagine going into connolly and asking for a ticket to Mac Diarmada station or Mallin :rolleyes:

KC61 · 16-02-2008 12:18PM

The full list of Irish railway station names is:

Dublin Heuston
Dublin Connolly
Dubllin Pearse
Dun Laoghaire Mallin
Bray Daly
Wexford O'Hanrahan
Waterford Plunkett
Kilkenny McDonagh
Limerick Colbert
Cork Kent
Tralee Casement
Galway Ceannt
Sligo MacDiarmada
Drogheda McBride
Dundalk Clarke

Iarnród Éireann renewed station signs a couple of years ago and reinstated the station names which have not been prominent in several cases for some years.

europerson · 16-02-2008 12:27PM

Drogheda McBride too.

GerardKeating · 16-02-2008 03:09PM

dewsbury wrote: »

Anybody else notice this?

Dun Laoghaire dart station is also called Mallin on some of the notices in the station.

When did this happen ?
What does it mean?

1966, they renamed most of the main mainline stations after the signators of the 1916 proclamation.

DWCommuter · 16-02-2008 11:18PM

europerson wrote: »

Drogheda McBride too.

You took the words from my fingers.

How could KC forget that one!

Ham'nd'egger · 16-02-2008 11:43PM

DWCommuter wrote: »

You took the words from my fingers.

How could KC forget that one!

It's probably the least thought of one, actually, DW.

Pearse is the only one that is named after more than one person, it being named in honour of the Pearse family. Westport, Ballina and Rosslare Europort (then Rosslare Harbour) are the only mainline termini that never got a name change. I can only presume that they ran out of names for the Mayo stations; Rosslare, not being owned by CIE, would probably not have been easily able to have been changed.

KC61 · 17-02-2008 08:04AM

DWCommuter wrote: »

You took the words from my fingers.

How could KC forget that one!

D'oh!

jjbrien · 17-02-2008 11:37AM

Hamndegger wrote: »

It's probably the least thought of one, actually, DW.

Pearse is the only one that is named after more than one person, it being named in honour of the Pearse family. Westport, Ballina and Rosslare Europort (then Rosslare Harbour) are the only mainline termini that never got a name change. I can only presume that they ran out of names for the Mayo stations; Rosslare, not being owned by CIE, would probably not have been easily able to have been changed.

Its amazing they didnt give Mullingar a name as back then it was a major staion serving Sligo, Galway, Ballina and Westport.

Yoda · 18-02-2008 12:17AM

Naming stations after people rather than places is a bit daft, in my view.

rainbowtrout · 18-02-2008 07:28PM

jjbrien wrote: »

And Waterford is Plunket, Limerick is Colbert, Sligo is Mac Diarmada and Galway is Ceannt. The only names that are used every day is Pearse, Connolly or Heuston. I cant imagine going into connolly and asking for a ticket to Mac Diarmada station or Mallin :rolleyes:

but the reverse is true coming from the other end, travelling from Sligo you would ask for a ticket to Connolly or a ticket to Heuston from Limerick. I suppose the names become redundant in all the other towns when there is only one station in the town, having said that we always called Limerick station Colbert at home.

rainbowtrout · 18-02-2008 07:35PM

Yoda wrote: »

Naming stations after people rather than places is a bit daft, in my view.

no more daft than naming streets, buildings, sports grounds (many of the GAA county grounds) after people. It's just a token of remembrance or honour usually for a deceased person, it doesn't really matter anyway as has been pointed out already most people don't know/don't use the real names of the stations. Wouldn't it be really boring if they were all just named by letter or number?

icdg · 18-02-2008 09:04PM

Hamndegger wrote: »

It's probably the least thought of one, actually, DW.

Pearse is the only one that is named after more than one person, it being named in honour of the Pearse family. Westport, Ballina and Rosslare Europort (then Rosslare Harbour) are the only mainline termini that never got a name change. I can only presume that they ran out of names for the Mayo stations; Rosslare, not being owned by CIE, would probably not have been easily able to have been changed.

Er, for all intents and purposes Rosslare Europort IS owned by CIE and has been since nationalisation day. The legal ownership of the port is, as far as I can trace, in the hands of the now-long defunct Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company which is jointly owned by CIE and Stena Line. Google reveals that the Stena Line ownership appears to stem from the privatisation of Sealink and before that the UK interest was held by British Rail, before that BTC, and before that Great Western Railways. The CIE interest was inhereted from GSR and before that Great Southern and Western Railways.

As far as I can see Irish Rail is for all practical purposes the operator of Rosslare Europort. The company's website is in the CIE corporate style.

Ham'nd'egger · 18-02-2008 10:44PM

icdg wrote: »

Er, for all intents and purposes Rosslare Europort IS owned by CIE and has been since nationalisation day. The legal ownership of the port is, as far as I can trace, in the hands of the now-long defunct Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company which is jointly owned by CIE and Stena Line. Google reveals that the Stena Line ownership appears to stem from the privatisation of Sealink and before that the UK interest was held by British Rail, before that BTC, and before that Great Western Railways. The CIE interest was inhereted from GSR and before that Great Southern and Western Railways.

As far as I can see Irish Rail is for all practical purposes the operator of Rosslare Europort. The company's website is in the CIE corporate style.

Irish Rail owns Rosslare Europort now, but not in 1966 so it was out of their hands at the time.

Isn't it mad how we have wandered off topic to this?

Why and when did Dún Laoghaire become Mallin?

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