Iarnród Éireann Night-time Track Works

Here you will find a complete list of planned night-time track works to Iarnród Éireann rail services.

Iarnród Éireann is committed to providing a quality train service to the large number of DART, Commuter and Intercity passengers using the railway on a daily basis. In order to ensure safe delivery of these public services we have to constantly maintain and improve the track infrastructure. Most of this work is safety critical maintenance work which has to take place at night when passenger trains are not running. This work can be noisy and affect people whose homes are near the operating railway as it involves the use of on-track machines and power tools.

We endeavour to notify house owners adjacent to the railway of any planned night-time works near their homes. In the case of apartment blocks and multiple units, communication is primarily through the relevant management companies or multiple unit owners.

Night-time track works can involve:

Points and Crossing maintenance
Plain Line Track maintenance
Vegetation Control
Bridge maintenance and Renewals
Ballasting Works

Night-time track works generally take place between midnight and 6am, except on Sundays when work can continue until 8am.

On some occasions, emergency works have to be carried out at short notice and it is not possible to advise home owners in advance. Also, some maintenance work is linear in nature and can be spread over approximately 2km on any one night alone, making it impractical to notify all of the homes that may be affected.

For alterations and amendments to the scheduled timetable due to line improvement works please see our Upcoming Line Improvement Works page.

The following currently scheduled night-time works are in close proximity to residential areas:

Night-time Track Works Across Iarnród Éireann Network

Station / Area	Date	Location
Ashtown – Enfield	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential linear track maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Blackrock - Dun Laoghaire	30^th Mar – 7^th April	Essential linear track maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Bray Yard	31^st Mar – 1^st April	Essential track maintenance (points repair). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Clontarf – Harmonstown	31^st Mar – 3^rdApril	Essential linear track maintenance (ballast maintenance). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Co.Kilkenny	31^st Mar – 4^th April	Knockmoylan to Lavistown. Essential linear track maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Dalkey - Killiney	1st - 3rd April	Essential bridge maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Drogheda	23rd - 28th March	Kearney’s Yard. Access/Egress. Loading on/off machine. Use of heavy on track machines needed
Dun Laoghaire – Sandycove	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (rail stress). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Dundalk	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Dunleer. Access/Egress. Loading on/off machine. Use of heavy on track machines needed
Hazelhatch	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential track maintenance (re-railing). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Heuston Station	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential track maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Kilcock	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (ballast maintenance). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Killiney	30^th Mar – 1^st April	Essential bridge maintenance (OBR125). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Killiney – Shankill	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (bridge maintenance OBR125 & track surveys). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Lansdowne Road (from Shelbourne Road to Newbridge Avenue)	3rd April 23:00hrs to 7th April 04:00	Overhead Cable Renewal works resulting in a 76hr shutdown over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Lansdowne Road from Shelbourne Road to Newbridge Avenue will be closed from 01:00hrs to 11:00hrs on Saturday 4th April and 01:00hrs to 11:30hrs on Sunday 5th April. During this period local access is permitted but there will be NO access across the Level Crossing, a road traffic management plan will be in place along with road diversions.
Laytown	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Access/Egress. Loading on/off machine. Use of heavy on track machines needed
Malahide	1^st April – 4^th April	Essential track maintenance (points repair). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Maynooth Railway Station to Ferrans Lock, Kilcock	30th March-4th April	On-track survey works requiring machinery including excavators, rail mounted plant and equipment to perform soil sampling and dynamic probing to inform DART+ Depot project design
Newbridge	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (ballast maintenance). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Pearse – Clontarf	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (points repair). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Pearse – Sandymount	31^stMar – 7^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (overhead cable renewals). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Portlaoise	30^th Mar – 5^th April	Essential track maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Spin Bridge	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Access/Egress. Loading on/off machine. Use of heavy on track machines needed
Sydney Parade - Blackrock	30^th Mar – 7^th April	Essential linear track maintenance (panel relaying). Use of heavy on track machinery needed
Woodbrook Station	30^th Mar – 4^th April	Essential track maintenance. Use of heavy on track machinery needed