Broombridge

Broombridge Station, located in the western suburbs of Dublin City, was one of four stations to be built in 1990 on the Dublin to Sligo line to serve the Maynooth commuter service. The station serves the northern area of Carba and was constructed just west of the former Liffey Junction. It has up & down platforms, the up been accessed from a ramp attached to the adjacent road overbridge. On the stations' opening day a bucket of flowers was to be presented to the first female passenger, at Broombridge nobody turned up! This seemed to curse the station and to this day it is frequently vandalised, the brick cobbled platform was gradually ripped up and thrown at passing trains. Due to the vandalised state the station is planned to be replaced in the future by a entirely new one at Liffey Junction.
This is the heavily vandalised Broombridge Station, looking east towards Dublin Cty, showing the somewhat bare up and down platforms. To the left can be seen the Royal Canal. Seen arriving at the up platform at Broombridge is 29000 Class railcar No.29102 with a service from Maynooth to Dublin. A ramp leads from the adjacent road overbridge down to the up platform. 22000 Class railcar No.22007 is seen on the rear of a Dublin to Sligo train seen passing through Broombridge. There were once sidings located to the left before the road overbridge which handled cattle traffic until the early 1970s. 29414 heads away from Broombridge with a service bound for Dublin Pearse. In the distance can be seen the Midland Great Western Railway water tower at the former Liffey Junction.
An evening view looking west towards Sligo from the end of the down platform. The semaphore signal gantry which spanned the down platform on the right was once controlled by Liffey Jct signal cabin. The nearby Liffey Junction signal cabin closed in 1991 and all the semaphore signals in the area were removed, but the this former signal could still be seen in 2002, it has since been removed.