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Dunmanway railway station was on the West Cork Railway, Dunmanway, in County Cork, Ireland. It was located at the southern end of the town, near to the junction of Park Road and Clonakilty Road. An adjacent hotel (still in existence today under another name) was known as the 'Railway Hotel'.
Albert Quay terminus Cork, 1948. Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR), was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway in Ireland.It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR), changed its name to Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway in 1888 and became part of the Great Southern Railway (GSR) in 1924.
Map of West Cork. West Cork (Irish: Iarthar Chorcaí) [1] is a tourist region and municipal district in County Cork, Ireland.As a municipal district, West Cork falls within the administrative area of Cork County Council, [2] and includes the towns of Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen, and the 'key villages' of Baltimore, Ballydehob, Courtmacsherry ...
Bandon West railway station was on the West Cork Railway in County Cork, Ireland. History. The station opened on 12 June 1866. It was moved and rebuilt on 1 June 1874.
On a railway map, dating to 1906, the station is marked as "Ballyneen & Enniskeen". [4] [5] and on Ordnance Survey maps it is marked as "Ballineen & Enniskean Station". [6] The West Cork line closed in March 1961, [2] and regular passenger services to the station were withdrawn from April 1961. [7]
The entire West Cork Railway network closed, as were most branch lines in the Republic. The main route network survived intact, with a relatively even distribution of cutbacks. The main routes from Dublin to Belfast, Sligo, Galway and the West of Ireland, Limerick, Cork and Kerry, Waterford and Wexford survived. The cross country route from ...
An 8 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile-long (14 km) extension was built north-westerly from St Annes (on the Blarney branch) to Donoughmore.The line was opened in 1893. It was legally a separate company (the Donoughmore Extension Light Railway Company, incorporated in 1889) but worked as a part of the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway.
The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR), was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway that opened to traffic on 11 April 1848. The Northern Counties Committee came into existence on 1 July 1903 as the result of the Midland Railway taking over the BNCR.