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The proposed light-rail system received support from the president of University College Cork, the Cork Chamber of Commerce, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, [14] and former Lord Mayor Mary Shields. [15] In 2020, the Cork Transport and Mobility Forum proposed a combined tram-train system for Cork based on the Karlsruhe model to the Cork City Council. [16]
The gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) was designed to be compatible with that of the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway so it could operate over some of the light railways route. The tram network also linked to the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway the gauge of which was reduced from 5 ft 3 in ( 1,600 mm ) to 3 ft ( 914 mm ) at this time ...
A train departing from Cobh. The Cork Suburban Rail (Irish: Iarnród Fobhailteach Chorcaí) network serves areas in and around Cork city in Ireland. There has been a suburban rail system in Cork since the middle of the 19th century; however, it was subject to line closures in the 20th century. The city also had a tram network - a short-lived ...
Services at different times of day will serve a different subset of the stations shown below. The "stations served" lists all possible stops for any train on a given route. As an example, some services to Limerick do not involve a change at Limerick Junction, and some services to Cork may stop at Limerick Junction, Charleville and Mallow only.
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 station replaced two earlier stations that served as separate termini for the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) and Cork & Youghal Railway (C&Y). The original GS&WR station, Penrose Quay, was located directly in front of the portal of the Cork railway tunnel through which the railway into Cork passed, while Cork Summerhill, the ...
The light-rail system is the centerpiece of Project Connect, which includes plans for new high-frequency bus routes, improvements to the Austin area's existing commuter rail offerings and other ...
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.