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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 18 train stations
Best train stations in Dublin
The 10 most notable train stations in Dublin, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Bray DART Station
Station Rd
18 m from Bray Daly Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.471, percentile 100 of 18
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2
Drumcondra
4 m from Drumcondra railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.437, percentile 94.12 of 18
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3
Harmonstown
Harmonstown Rd
66 m from Harmonstown railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.151, percentile 88.24 of 18
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4
Tallaght Garda Station
Belgard Road East, Belgard Square
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.141, percentile 82.35 of 18
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5
Dublin Pearse railway station
westland row
12 m from Dublin Pearse railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.077, percentile 76.47 of 18
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6
Grand Canal Dock
Barrow St
4 m from Grand Canal Dock railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.077, percentile 70.59 of 18
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7
Balally Luas Stop
Rockfield Central, Dundrum
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.045, percentile 64.71 of 18
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8
Sandycove and Glasthule railway station
Summerhill Road
39 m from Sandycove and Glasthule railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.811, percentile 58.82 of 18
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9
Killiney railway station
Station Road
25 m from Killiney railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.809, percentile 52.94 of 18
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10
Docklands railway station
0 m from Docklands railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.776, percentile 47.06 of 18
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).