The station typically closes for two hours after such events in the interest of crowd control.

Grand Canal Dock was built on the site of the former locomotive works of the Dublin & Kingstown Railway and its successors, which was in use between 1840 and 1925.

Irish Rail also added a centre road terminating turn-back facility to accommodate southbound trains.

The refurbishment of the station itself was completed in May 2015, although major resignalling and track work took place for one more year.

[4][5] The completion of the Irish Rail City Centre resignalling project has provided for This has been made possible by making available all three platforms at Grand Canal Dock and increasing the ability of the signalling system in the city centre to operate 20 trains per hour in both directions instead of 8.