Heuston Luas stop
Luas Red Line · Heuston
About Heuston
The tram tracks here run at right angles to the main line ones, across the forecourt of Heuston, and the stop has three platforms — two outer edge platforms and both faces of an island between them. It opened with the line in 2004.
Nearly everyone using it is going to or coming from a train. Dublin Heuston is about 110 m from the platforms, a walk Iarnród Éireann puts at two minutes, but the two are separate places with separate names, and nothing connects them except the forecourt. Trams run east from here across the Seán Heuston Bridge to Museum and the city centre, and west along the Grand Canal towards Tallaght and Saggart. There is cycle parking at the stop.
First and last trams from Heuston
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 Heuston: Red Line towards Tallaght, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (316 departures on a weekday) and Red Line towards The Point, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (317 departures on a weekday).
Connections and interchange
- Dublin Heuston — about 2 minutes on foot (walking time named by Iarnód Éireann). It is a separate station, not another platform here.
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 Heuston
The setting is the river and the western approach to the centre. Two Liffey crossings are within a hundred metres of the platforms — Frank Sherwin Bridge at about 70 m and Seán Heuston Bridge at 90 m — and the Anna Livia sculpture stands some 150 m away. Saint Patrick’s University Hospital is about 290 m off. On the far bank, the Collins Barracks site and the National Museum of Ireland’s Decorative Arts and History collection are roughly 290 to 320 m away, with the Asgard among the exhibits there.
| Place | Straight-line distance from the stop |
|---|---|
| Frank Sherwin Bridge | 70 m |
| Sean Heuston Bridge | 90 m |
| Anna Livia | 150 m |
| Saint Patrick’s University Hospital | 290 m |
| Collins Barracks | 290 m |
| National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History | 320 m |
| Asgard | 370 m |
| National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks | 390 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 is laid out with two outer edge platforms and an island platform used on both faces, giving three platform edges in all. The arrangement lets trams stand at the stop while others pass, which matters at a point where passengers arrive in large groups off main line trains.
No. They are two separate places about 110 m apart, which Iarnród Éireann describes as a two-minute walk. The tram stop is on the forecourt, with its tracks crossing at right angles to the railway, and the change between them is made on foot across the open ground.