Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)

Name: COCKBURN, GILBERT [1] *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1841-1851
Nature: GC contractor
Refs: DB 4, 15 Feb 1862, 43

Name: MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1841-51
Nature: New station. In progress 1851; complete by end Jan 1852. Of Ballyknockan granite. Contractor: Cockburn & Son. To cost about £24,000.
Refs: RHA 1841, no. 459,492; 1852, no. 349; 1853, no. 384; B 8, 3 Aug 1850, 368; 9, 16 Aug 1851, 517; 10, 31 Jan 1852, 76; IB 73, 6 Jun 1931, 505; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'John Skipton Mulvany, architect, 1813-1870', Martello (Summer 1988), 38; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of John Skipton Mulvany', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 3 (2000), 31-38(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 282-3.

Name: TURNER, RICHARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1841p
Nature: Segment-headed iron roofs to Passenger Shed, designed and constructed by RT. Collapsed in 1847 and replaced by new roof constructed by G.W. Hemans.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 283.

Name: MALLET, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1847
Nature: Floating pontoon bridge across canal to give vehicular access to station.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 282.

Name: HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1847ca;1850-55
Nature: Passenger shed, 1847ca. Engine house, 1850-55..
Refs: APSD II, D, 77; G.W. Hemans, 'A short account of the fall, during a violent storm of part of a roof in progress of erection over the Dublin Terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway', TICEI 3 (1847-49), 13-20;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 282-283.

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1860-61
Nature: Alterations & addition (including alts to departure platform and new colonnaded carriage shelter on arrival platform). Contractor: Crowe Bros.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Apr 1860, 239; 3, 1 Apr 1861, 469; IB 62, 20 Nov 1920, ?; Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 194(illua.),198-9;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 282-3.

Name: GREENE, ROBERT ROWAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1880ca
Nature: Remodelling of station and creation of new approach by removing aqueduct and filling up part of the Royal Canal Harbour. For Midland Great Western Railway Co.
Refs: Min. Proc. ICE 72 (1882-83), 309

Name: O'NEILL, WILLIAM PURCELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BROADSTONE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1914
Nature: Alts. & adds. to boiler shops. Estimated cost: £3,427.
Refs: IAA, PKS B22/10, A09 (Jul 1914)