Kishoge train station to open after 14 years

KISHOGE train station, which has been dormant since its construction at a cost of more than €6 million 14 years ago, will open later this year.

Irish Rail has confirmed that the station, on the Kildare line between Clondalkin and Adamstown, will open in December.

However, a spokesman said, “extensive works” were needed to refurbish and upgrade Kishoge station. These would cost about €3.8 million, more than half the original €6.35 million cost of the station.

Completed in 2009, the station was intended to serve a new community of up to 15,000 homes at the Clonburris Strategic Development Zone (SDZ), planned as the next new west Dublin suburb after Adamstown.

The first homes under the new scheme – almost 400 social, affordable purchase and cost-rental homes will be developed by South Dublin County Council, and 569 homes will be built by Cairn homes, the largest private landowner in Clonburris, with construction due to start early this year.

Irish Rail said extensive works needed to bring the station into service, include meeting present-day accessibility and systems requirements which are above and beyond the original requirements, replacement and repairs associated with wear and tear, vandalism and other degradation over time.

The work will include lift replacement, renewal or replacement of all mechanical, electrical fire and telecoms cables and equipment, internal and external wall works, replacement of flooring areas, damaged ramps and tactile tiling, paths and paving repairs, and the installation of up-to-date signage and station furniture.

The work is scheduled to begin in March and be completed by November, ahead of the opening of the station in December.