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Cement train entering Donabate station - 1980 CIÉ Metropolitan Vickers built 201 class diesel No. 234 brings southbound cement “bubbles” from Platin outside Drogheda, into Donabate station. Conveyance of cement by rail ended in December 2009. A typical GNR(I) style signal cabin can be seen at left. Donabate cabin closed in 1983, with all manual signalling between Malahide and Drogheda ending on 3 July 1994. · Photo: The Carlisle Kid · CC BY-SA 2.0

What is recorded here

The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. Detached single-bay single-storey signal box, c.1900, with timber structure on brick plinth.ROOF: Double-pitched, gable fronted slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles.

Detached single-bay single-storey signal box, c.1900, with timber structure on brick plinth.ROOF: Double-pitched, gable fronted slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Decorative timber bargeboard supported by carved timber brackets with cast-iron finials; projecting brick chimney stack to side elevation. WALLS: Red brick English garden wall bond with recessed panels to floor; tongue and grooved timber walls with glazed panels. OPENINGS: Square-headed openings; probably original tongue and grooved timber door; brick reveals to ground floor now blocked up

Detached single-bay single-storey signal box, c.1900, with timber structure on brick plinth.ROOF: Double-pitched, gable fronted slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles.

The story behind this place

Detached single-bay single-storey signal box, c.1900, with timber structure on brick plinth.ROOF: Double-pitched, gable fronted slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles.

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