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Destruction of railway infrastructure at Harcourt street station

I walked from Hatch street to Albert place the goods area of Harcourt street station was beside Hatch street and was in until 100 years ago closing in 1925 , The station was D&SER's main goods depot until 1925, when Great Southern Railway moved operations to North Wall and reduced its status. The goods shed burned down on June 30, 1947. After the roof was replaced in 1953, the building served as a tyre depot for the Irish Dunlop Tyre Company. One siding served livestock and another transported stone from Bray Head and Baleece Quarry for Dublin roadworks. All goods traffic had ceased by the summer of 1950. The line crossed both Adelaide and Harcourt roads with its ornate bridges The engine shed was on the left and had closed in 1957 when steam transport ceased on the line, to the right was the 1938 Electrical mechanical signal cabin built by the GSR, it replaced the original 1878 cabin. These colour lights signals were in place all the way down to Ranelagh. The line crossed the over Albert place bridge. The sidings from the goods yard and engine shed merged before double tracks crossed over the Grand Canal by a three spanned plate girder bridge. There was a sizeable amount of infrastructure in this area and the rapid dismantling of the line indicated that the line could never reopen as it was and over 40 years later when they were constructing the Luas line they had to replace the Grand Canal bridge and built a ramp that dropped down to Albert place onto street level