Worst Station of the Year 2009

[Mark Gleeson]

While Irish Rail continue on the fruitless excercise of finding the best station, what passengers want is the worst stations to be identified and fixed

So, select from the poll option. If your favorite is not there let us know so we can add it in. There can be only 10 options.

Pearse was last years runaway winner, followed by Howth Junc and Connolly. Normally we exclude Broombridge, but why should we regardless of location every station should meet basic standards.

This year we lost the old favorites of Clondalkin and Cherry Orchard and saw Connolly get a make over of sorts, while poor Pearse is still a mess

[ThomasJ]

I would say presentation wise there is no question it is Broombridge but no my preference would be to not wait long in a kip rather than have to spend upto an hour in the middle of nowhere or a massive walk!

Location-wise: Hazelhatch- Has anyone tried to walk from Celbridge village to Hazelhatch. Not bad on a fine day but when there is rain....

Blackrock: I have to make a feeder bus connection and everytime I get the DART to make the connection its late arrives at blackrock have to run the length, run into people who have all the time in the world and because of the length of the footbridge and the exit validation I always miss the bus! with a 30-minute wait on the next.

Howth Junction also goes into the category of about 20-minutes to get out of it

Rosslare Europort: Location wise and identity-crisis wise because its not in well.... Rosslare Europort!

I would not go with pearse or connolly because i think both have dramatically improved over last year connolly recently is unrecognisable

Phoenix park: Because its not in well.... Phoenix Park!

Just to name a few!

My decision is .... Rosslare because its no longer in the europort and its impact on tourists etc... Hazelhatch would have been my second

[on the move]

Worst condition: Broombridge obviously

Worst track set-up: Killarney

Worst location: Portmarnock, Shankill, Rush and Lusk, Sallins and Naas, Limerick/Manulla Junction.

[ThomasJ]

Can we throw in Hazelhatch or has the 4-tracking program fixed everything that is wrong with these stations.

[Mark Gleeson]

Hazelhatch is grand since it was done up, proper station building, waiting room, lights, lifts and so on

[sean]

Gotta be Boombridge without a doubt - for years passing by it on the Sligo train I didn't even realise it was a station in service, of course these days I see the station name signs. In Irish it of course Drochead na Scuab ... Drochead na Scobe sounds more like it!

Rosslare "Europort" must be a close second - WTF were Irish Rail thinking? They had the alignment/right of way and should have demanded it be maintained!

Connolly ... whew ... I'm actually impressed! There's enough toilets now, not that dark bloody broken down cupboard they had before, and they've replaced the passenger seating area by bringing that isolated bit of road by the side indoors and putting seats there!

Of course it would have made more sense to bring the Luas up there instead of demolishing the old ramp, and forget about those ticket barriers (especially since you can't roll them out citywide, see paragraph 1), but what they did is a close 2nd best.

I really didn't think Irish Rail could do it!

[grainne whale]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Hazelhatch is grand since it was done up, proper station building, waiting room, lights, lifts and so on

Pity the trains don't run on time, however.