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Howth railway station , opened on 30 May 1847, serves
Howth HeadHowth Head is a headland north of Dublin City in Ireland, near the districts of Baldoyle and Portmarnock. Sutton lies at the entry to the headland and on part of the southern side, and Howth district occupies the rest, with the village and harbour on the northern side.Originally an island, Howth...
and the harbour town of
HowthHowth is an area in the Fingal County Council administrative area of County Dublin, Ireland. Originally just a small fishing village and surrounding rural district, Howth is now a busy suburb of Dublin, with a mix of dense residential development and wild hillside...
in
County DublinCounty Dublin , or more correctly today the Dublin Region , is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland as well as the largest city on the island of Ireland; and the modern counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. The Dublin Regional Authority is the...
,
IrelandIreland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...
, in the administration of
FingalFingal is a county in Ireland, one of the three administrative counties formed from County Dublin in 1994. With its county seat located in Swords, it has a population of a nearly quarter of a million.- Etymology :...
. It is a two platform terminal station.
Due to the lack of a run-round facility, on the rare occasion that a locomotive-hauled train arrives (such as on a
railtourA railtour is a special train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not available using timetabled passenger services...
) a second locomotive must follow the train light engine from Dublin so as to haul the train back from Howth.
The
Howth tramColloquially known as the Howth Tram, the tramway operated from June 1901 to June 1959 and served Howth Head, near Dublin, Ireland. The service was run by the Great Northern Railway , which viewed it as a way to bring more customers to its railway stations at Sutton and Howth.-Route:Electric...
ran between here and
Sutton railway stationSutton railway station serves the village and district of Sutton, and is also accessible from Baldoyle in County Dublin.
The station opened on 30 July 1846. The Howth tram ran between here and Howth railway station until 1959.
It is on the coastal road from Sutton to Baldoyle, near...
until 1959.
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