Irish Railway Architecture

Following my sunny escapade to Laytown my station safari continued to Drogheda - finally . Sitting to the south of the illustrious River Boyne marking County Louth’s dent into County Meath, I drive up the approach ramp to be met with the mini-temple that is Drogheda railway station.  Drogheda Station (Buildings of Ireland) Designed by the renowned architect George Papworth for the Dublin and Drogheda Railway (DDR) the station was not built by the time the line ran its first train from Dublin in 1844. The original holding station was located to the south-west at Newtown, with the opening of Papworth’s station in 1852. The brown-brick station is a nod to neo-Romanesque classicism with its H-plan footprint and stone Tuscan-inspired columned distyle portico, flanked by large rounded arch orders framing the recessed windows in the side-wings. The functional chimneys break the pitched roof bringing the viewer back to the modern-age. The entrance has been sympathetically modernised with an