Wicklow

The Dublin & Wicklow Railway's line from Dublin reached the county town of Wicklow itself in November 1855, and terminated north of the town at Wicklow Murrough. The present Wicklow Station seen here was built in March 1884 on a new alignment west of the Murrough when the railway was extended further south to Rathdrum in 1862, and ultimately to Wexford. Wicklow Station has up and down platforms, and retains its original DWWR station buildings, such as the typical signal cabin attached to the original footbridge, and brick/stone built waiting room on the up platform. The station once boasted a number of pre-1925 Dublin South Eastern Railway style semaphore signal posts, distinctive in been lattice made. The signal cabin was made redundant following the replacement of mechanical signalling on the Rosslare line in 2008, and the semaphore signals were subsequently removed.
2800 Class railcar No.2811 arrives into Wicklow Station on an afternoo Rosslare to Dublin service. The 22000 Class railcars nowadays operate these services. 141 Class locomotives Nos.147+144 stand at Wicklow Station on an Irisih Railway Record Society special from Dublin to Rosslare. Both these locos have since been withdrawn. The 1885 built Wicklow (Mainline) station, looking south towards Rosslare from the up platform in the days of semaphore signalling. The single storey Dublin Wicklow & Wexford Railway built station building on the down platform at Wicklow. This station replaced the earlier 1885 built terminus station at the Murrough, just north of Wicklow town.
The DWWR stone & brick built waiting room on the up platform at Wicklow Station, which also dates from 1885. The typical DWWR 1884 built signal cabin at Wicklow Station, which is attached to the station footbridge. The cabin has since been made redundant following the replacement of mechanical signalling on the Rosslare line in 2008. The electronic track panal within Wicklow signal cabin. The panal also displays the CTC colour light signals towards Greystones. Until their replacement by colour light signals, the semaphores at Wicklow boasted pre-1925 Dublin South Eastern Railway lattice posts, as seen here at the south end of the station in 2006.
This was the semaphore signal located at the north end of the up platform at Wicklow Station. It was also mounted on a pre-1925 DSER lattice post. It also has a shunt disc signal for the siding beyond. This is the tall 'down' home semaphore signal located at the north end of Wicklow Station. Mounted on a pre-1925 DSER post, the small bracket arm below for the loop was added by CIE in the mid 1970s for bi-directional signalling. The view from the station footbridge at Wicklow, looking north towards Dublin in the days of semaphore signalling. In the background is the Vartry River. The view from the station footbridge at Wicklow, looking south towards Rosslare. There was once a small siding on the left serving the down side of the station.
Post-1925 Great Southern Railway bi-lingual footbridge notice, mounted on the 1880s constructed DWWR footbridge at Wicklow Station.