Park West and Cherry Orchard railway station

Park West and Cherry Orchard railway station, is an Iarnród Éireann railway station in Ballyfermot, Dublin, serving the Parkwest and the Cherry Orchard area.

Description

The station opened on 28 July 2008, replacing the former Cherry Orchard and Parkwest Station located nearby. It is located in on the Dublin - Cork main line (the pre-Grouping Great Southern & Western Railway) and is served by South Western Commuter services.

Former Cherry Orchard station

The former station, Cherry Orchard and Parkwest - originally simply called Cherry Orchard - opened on 16 May 1994. It was closed on 27 July 2008 as part of the Kildare Route Project, a major upgrade of the Dublin-Cork main line as far as Hazelhatch.It was known to mass vandalism and one of the reasons they shut it down. 20 metres up the line there is a gap in the fence and many people walk across the track as irish rail did not build a bridge in the area where that old station was.

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