Loopline Bridge
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| Other nameTemplate:Pluralize from text | Liffey Viaduct |
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| Construction end | 1891 |
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The Loopline Bridge (or the Liffey Viaduct, Template:Langx[1]) is a railway bridge spanning the River Liffey and several streets in Dublin, Ireland. It joins rail services from south of Dublin to Connolly Station and lines north.
Designed by John Chaloner Smith (engineer to the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway), the bridge was built between 1889 and 1891.[2] It consists of wrought iron lattice girders on a double row of piers with five spans. The viaduct is approximately six metres above street level and supports two railway tracks.[3]
During original planning and construction (in the late 19th century) the project was subject to much opposition and controversy,[4] because the structure blocks the view down river to The Custom House. However, the bridge was deemed necessary as a rail link between north and south Dublin, and to facilitate the movement of transatlantic mail coming from Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) and Queenstown (Cobh).[3]
100 years later, the visage of the bridge remains the subject of some debate,[5] and has been described by historian Richard Killeen as "one of the city's true eyesores".[6] Already arguably less attractive[7] than some of Dublin's other bridges, the façades of the Loopline have been used by Iarnród Éireann for billboard advertising. As of 2006[update], the company has scaled back the bridge's use for this purpose[8] to reduce impact on the city skyline, following input from An Bord Pleanála and Dublin City Council.[9]
A prominent feature in the city landscape since 1891, the Loopline Bridge appears in one of the most famous literary works associated with Dublin:
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A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between the Customhouse old dock and George’s quay.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Loopline Bridge/Droichead na Lúblíne". logainm.ie.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Loopline Bridge - Design and Engineering". Bridges of Dublin. Dublin City Council. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Project history of Dublin's River Liffey bridges" (PDF). 156 Issue BE4. Bridge Engineering - Phillips & Hamilton. December 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Liffey Bridges Survey Team (1987). The Liffey bridges from Islandbridge to Eastlink: a historical and technical report (Report). Dublin: Liberties Association.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."News - Hoardings to be cleared from the Loopline bridge". Irish-architecture.com. 21 November 2004.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Killeen, Richard (2009). Historical Atlas of Dublin. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 135. ISBN 978-0717145959.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hoardings to be cleared from the Loopline bridge". Sunday Business Post. 21 November 2004 – via Irish Railway News.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Architectural forum discussion with pictures showing removal of Loopline hoardings". Archiseek.com. 29 November 2002.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Order and decision regarding advertising on Liffey Viaduct (Loop-line Bridge)". An Bord Pleanála. 18 March 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
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