Tralee and Dingle Light Railway

Introduction

This light railway ran from Tralee to Dingle with a branch to Castlegregory.

After closure a short portion was re-opened in 1993 as the Tralee and Blennerville Railway (operation ceased in 2006).






Dates

  /  /1888Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Incorporated. Known as The Mountain Railway. (Alternative date 1884.)
  /  /1891Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Opened from Tralee (Great Southern and Western Railway) station to Tralee [TandDLR] and on to Dingle and Dingle Pier. Castlegregory branch.
  /  /1893Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Accident on Glengalt Bank, beyond Camp Junction.
  /  /1895Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Camp Junction renamed Castlegregory Junction.
  /  /1896Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Taken over by Kerry County Council.
  /07/1910Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Deviation for the Glengalt Ban opened on an easier gradient.
  /  /1925Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway Ballinascarthy and Timoleague Junction Light Railway Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway Baltimore Extension Railway Bantry Extension Railway Cavan and Leitrim Railway City of Dublin Junction Railways Clonakilty Extension Railway Cork and Macroom Direct Railway Cork and Muskerry Light Railway Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway Cork City Railways Donoughmore Extension Railway Dublin and Kingstown Railway Dublin and South Eastern Railway Great Southern Railway Loughrea and Attymon Light Railway New Ross and Waterford Extension Railway Schull and Skibbereen Light Railway South Clare Railways Southern Railway [Ireland] Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Light Railway Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Extension Light Railway Tralee and Dingle Light Railway Tralee and Fenit Railway Waterford and Tramore Railway West Carbery Tramways and Light Railways West Clare Railway
Merged to become Great Southern Railways.
  /  /1939Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Closed to passengers.
  /  /1947Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Closed to goods.
27/06/1953Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Final cattle train runs, line closed.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Tralee to Dingle

Having arrived at Tralee with the afternoon section of Day 6 of Steam Dreams' 'Emerald Isle Explorer' from Killarney, Great Northern Railway of ...
David Bosher 17/06/2017
Exterior of Tralee station, County Kerry, with quite rightly the Irish spelling, on 16th June 2017. This station, dating from 1859, is now the ...
David Bosher 16/06/2016
CIE 165 with a train at Tralee, County Kerry, in 1988. ...
Bill Roberton //1988
The remains of Tralee goods yard in 1988.
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Bill Roberton //1988
Basin station, Tralee, looking towards the town in 1988. It was so named because of the nearby Tralee Ship Canal. The railway passed to the left of ...
Bill Roberton //1988
Looking along the Tralee Ship Canal, towards Blennerville and the sea, in 1988. The canal opened in 1846 but closed in 1951 due to silting. ...
Bill Roberton //1988
The Tralee Ship Canal was opened in 1846 and closed in 1951 due to silting. This is Tralee Basin in 1988, since refurbished with new housing ...
Bill Roberton //1988
View across the disused level crossing towards Tralee Aquadrome of the short-lived revived section of the former Tralee & Dingle Railway, in County ...
David Bosher 15/06/2016
Remains of the line and station (in background) by the Aquadrome at Tralee that was opened in 1993 for a short revived section of the former Tralee & ...
David Bosher 15/06/2016
A view towards Blennerville from Tralee Aquadrome of the short-lived heritage section of the former Tralee & Dingle Light Railway, in the far ...
David Bosher 15/06/2016
Looking east from Blennerville in 1988 with sleeper indentations visible on the trackbed of the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway.
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Bill Roberton //1988
Grass-grown tracks still in position, over which a short revived section of the former narrow gauge Tralee & Dingle Railway (originally closed to ...
David Bosher 24/06/2017
The remains of Blennerville station, looking west to the windmill in 1988.
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Bill Roberton //1988
The remains of the Tralee and Dingle station at Blennerville, looking east, in 1988. Passenger trains were revived from 1993 till 2013.
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Bill Roberton //1988


Castlegregory Branch