{"id":957,"date":"2023-02-12T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2023-02-12T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:14:28","slug":"lucan-north-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/lucan-north-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucan North station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whilst out volunteer litter picking* on the Royal Canal between Confey and Clonsilla yesterday, I noticed that either Waterways Ireland or Irish Rail had cleared the overgrowth around the old <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Gazetteer\/Locations\/Railways\/Stations\/Dublin\/Lucan%20North.html\">Lucan North railway station<\/a>, better revealing the former waiting shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-959\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-1200x900.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230211_144125921-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Lucan North railway station and waiting shelter. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* I had a few passers by on the canal towpath thank me for doing litter picking. Whilst this is nice, the thought struck me &#8211; if you think that someone doing litter picking is a worthwhile social activity, why aren&#8217;t you partaking in the activity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst out volunteer litter picking* on the Royal Canal between Confey and Clonsilla yesterday, I noticed that either Waterways Ireland or Irish Rail had cleared the overgrowth around the old Lucan North railway station, better revealing the former waiting shelter. * I had a few passers by on the canal towpath thank me for doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}