Bantry Extension Railway
Introduction
This closed line extended the Ilen Valley Railway west from Drimoleague to Bantry [Union Hill].
Dates
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Drimoleague to Bantry
A replica station sign at Drimoleague, junction of the CB&SCR lines to Bantry and Skibbereen. The line to Skibbereen opened through Drimoleague in ...Mark Poustie 30/06/2020
View over former level crossing where line to Skibbereen crossed R586 Bantry road just west of Drimoleague station. View looks south west in direction ...Mark Poustie 30/06/2020
Surviving pedestrian gate beside former level crossing of line to Skibbereen and Baltimore over R586 Bantry road just west of Drimoleague station. ...Mark Poustie 30/06/2020
Drimoleague Station site, looking west in June 2020. Beyond the platforms the line to Skibbereen and on to Baltimore diverged left and the line to ...Mark Poustie 30/06/2020
View westwards in Bantry direction across the former level crossing to the west of the surviving station at Aughaville. The trackbed entered a cutting ...Mark Poustie 11/07/2020
The single platform at Aughaville survives together with the original corrugated iron waiting room as part of the garden of a new house constructed ...Mark Poustie 11/07/2020
Durrus Road was the final station before Bantry on the line from Drimoleague. Like Aughaville Halt, the next station to the east, it had a single ...Mark Poustie 16/05/2021
The station site at Durrus Road straddled a minor road with the platform, now obliterated, on the eastern side of the level crossing and small goods ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
Books
 Border Country Branch Line Album |  Old Carnwath: Including Braehead, Dolphinton, Dunsyre, Elsrickle, Kaimend, Libberton, Newbigging and Walston |  Peebles Railways |  The Railways of Peebles (Through Time) |
