Now, though it's not quite Grand Central, Gare du Nord or the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, the drab and the functional at Heuston has been replaced by the light, the airy, the modern. Instead of nipping in past the taxis on the John's Road side or approaching from the open end by the Liffey, the traveller now goes in through the long, closed-off main entrance as if entering a plush hotel. The look is glass and stainless steel, the feel cosmopolitan.
