Sydney Parade railway station
railway station in Dublin, Ireland
Sydney Parade Railway Station (Irish: Stáisiún Pharáid Sydney) is a suburban station located on Sydney Parade Avenue in Dublin 4, Ireland.
History
The station opened on 1 January 1835, as a halt on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. In 1852, it was upgraded to a full station with the construction of shelters, stone platforms and a footbridge.
It was named after Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea.
The station was closed between 12 September 1960 and 6 June 1972. It was electrified in 1984 with the launch of DART services.
Location and access
Sydney Parade serves the southern end of Dublin 4, St Vincent's Hospital at Elm Park and the RTÉ Radio and Television studios at Montrose, Donnybrook.
There is a level crossing with code XR-004 at the northern end of the station.
The information office is open at various times between 06:00-00:00, Monday to Friday. It is unstaffed on Saturday and Sunday.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sydney Parade railway station” as railway station in Dublin, Ireland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2397711. Authority coordinates are 53.321, -6.212. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1835, 1852, 1960 and 1972.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sydney Parade railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.