I traveled southside for the first time in a long while today to photograph the stations from Glenageary to Bray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Shankill, I noted that Irish Rail has taken de-staffing to the extreme by walling up the ticket office, leaving a building with no ability to staff it (reminder to IR – the present byelaws don’t reference TVMs – if no staffed ticket office, technically, there is no need for a ticket).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, the thought struck me, as there is separate access to both platforms not going through what was the ticket office,\u00a0why maintain this building?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notwithstanding\u00a0that it was built in the 1970s as a ticket office, it would surely be within the capability of CIE, the property development company, to repurpose this as a 1 bed house and sell it. Bijou residence, adjacent to DART station, council owned carpark adjacent where a resident’s permit could be arranged. They could even throw in a villa ticket* to smooth the sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
* Villa tickets were a 19th century idea of the (private sector) railway companies. They were typically granted by the railway company to anyone building a new house in designated areas near to the companies’ stations for a period of up to 10 years, the idea being that this would encourage such development and increase the usage of the railway line in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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