DART Underground (Irish: DART Faoi Thalamh), previously known as the Interconnector, is a planned railway tunnel in Ireland, projected to run under the city centre of Dublin. The tunnel would allow for the expansion of the electrified DART and the Dublin Suburban Rail network, and connect Heuston Station with Pearse Station. In November 2011 the government announced that the project would be deferred until 2016 at the earliest. A month later a Railway Order permitting the construction of the project was granted in December 2011 by An Bord Pleanala.
DART underground would provide an underground link between the existing Northeast DART line between Malahide/Howth and Clontarf Road and the Western Rail line between Heuston and Hazelhatch, with new underground stations at across Dublin's city centre at the Docklands, Pearse Station, St. Stephen's Green, Christchurch, and beneath Heuston Station. Despite this not being a very direct route, the decision by An Bord Pleanala specifically referred to a national policy requirement that the line be built through St. Stephen's Green. The project would also involve the construction of a new overground station at Inchicore.
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