Dundrum Luas stop
Luas Green Line · Dún Droma
About Dundrum
Of the Harcourt Street line’s four original intermediate stations — the others were Stillorgan, Carrickmines and Shankill — Dundrum was the most elaborate. It was built for the line that opened in 1854 and designed by William Dargan, who lived nearby and used it himself. There were buildings on both platforms: waiting rooms and a signal box on the Dublin-bound side, the stationmaster’s house and the ticket hall on the other, the latter entered through a small portico whose roof rested on a colonnade. An iron footbridge and a granite underpass linked the two, and the signal cabin carried a board reading Station for St Columba’s College almost as large as the name board itself. Goods traffic lasted here into the 1950s, longer than anywhere else on the line, but the whole route closed at the end of 1958.
Demolition followed, and then a flood: the road bridge went with the track, and in 1963 heavy rain burst the banks of the old formation and sent water through the village. The embankment and beams were cleared in 1971 when the Churchtown, Dundrum and Taney roads were rebuilt as a crossroads. The trams returned in 2004, and the rebuild put the granite underpass back into use. The surviving ticket-hall building, derelict for years, has since been converted to shops, the colonnade arches glazed to form its outer wall. Over the junction stands the cable-stayed William Dargan Bridge, named for the engineer. Balally follows to the south.
First and last trams from Dundrum
| Line and direction | Mon–Thu first – last | Friday first – last | Saturday first – last | Sunday first – last | Bank holiday first – last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Line towards Brides Glen | 06:09 – 00:56 | 06:09 – 00:56 | 06:45 – 00:56 | 07:39 – 23:56 | 07:39 – 23:56 |
| Green Line towards Broombridge | 05:37 – 00:25 | 05:37 – 00:25 | 06:37 – 00:25 | 07:07 – 23:25 | 07:07 – 23:25 |
Departures from this stop in the NTA’s published timetable for a representative week. A day type with no departures is shown as no service rather than filled in from another day.
From Dundrum: Green Line towards Brides Glen, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (366 departures on a weekday) and Green Line towards Broombridge, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (360 departures on a weekday).
Next stops from Dundrum
Running times to the adjoining stops, from the operators’ own timetables.
| Line | Next stop | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Green Line | Balally | 1.7 min |
| Green Line | Windy Arbour | 2.4 min |
Connections and interchange
Dundrum is served by the Luas Green Line only. There is no change to another line here and no walking transfer to another station nearby.
Facilities
luas.ie publishes no facility list for individual Luas stops, so the only stop-level facts here are the Park & Ride and Cycle & Ride flags from the operator’s own stop data. Absence of a row is not evidence that something is missing.
What is near Dundrum
Dundrum — Dún Droma — is one of the heaviest-used calls on the line because the retail centre is right beside it: Dundrum Shopping Centre is about 160 m from the platforms, with the College of Further Education Dundrum the same distance and Dundrum Library about 120 m. Saint Nahi’s Church, which predates all of it, is roughly 200 m away, and Sweetmount Park about 180 m. The village main street is reached from the southern end of the stop, the crossroads and the bus interchange from the northern.
| Place | Straight-line distance from the stop |
|---|---|
| First Active | 110 m |
| Saint Nahi's Church | 200 m |
| Dundrum Library | 120 m |
| College of Further Education Dundrum | 160 m |
| Dundrum Shopping Centre | 160 m |
| Sweetmount Park | 180 m |
Named places from OpenStreetMap within 400 m of the stop. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route.
Frequently asked questions
It outlived the 1958 closure. The waiting rooms, signal cabin and stationmaster’s house came down in the years that followed, but the single-storey ticket-hall building survived and stood derelict for a long time. It has since been restored and turned over to retail use, with the arches of its colonnade glazed to make the exterior wall.
It honours William Dargan, the engineer who built the Harcourt Street railway and designed its railway station, and who lived in the area. The cable-stayed bridge was put up in place of the railway’s old bridge over the road, which had been removed after the line closed.