What were the sidings at clonsilla station used for other then the derailment of 192

[josh_]

Wondering as it’s my local station and loved to know

[jhb171achill]

Originally cattle trains awaiting entry to the Dublin area, or coming off the Meath branch, I'd say.

[Mayner]

There were two siding on opposite sides of the running lines at the Dublin end of Clonsilla.

The short siding on the Down side opposite the signal cabin served a short loading bank and may have been used for general goods traffic and later used by the p.w. Dept for parking track machines,

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307491

There was a Cattle Bank on the Dublin side of the signal cabin served by a siding that trailed into the Up Main Line. The arrangement of the cattle bank was unusual in that it was in the form of an island between the main line and siding which ran alongside the canal, this siding was removed at some stage before the station was re-opened in 1981.

A section of the Down Main line was retained as a siding/layby for goods trains after the Main Line was singled in the late 1920s, 191 derailed on the end of this siding as a result of a deliberate run-away incident from the North Wall.

At one stage there was a loco shed connected to the Meath Line at the Navan end of the station.