Tralee and Killarney Railway

Introduction

The line built by this former railway company is open between Killarney and Tralee. At Killarney the line joins just outside the station, leaving the terminus on a short branch. With closure of other lines at Tralee it is now a terminus.





Dates

  /  /1853Tralee and Killarney Railway
Incorporated.
  /  /1859Tralee and Killarney Railway
Opened from Tralee Junction (Killarney Junction Railway) to Tralee.
  /  /1860Tralee and Killarney Railway
Absorbed by Great Southern and Western Railway.
  /  /1875Castleisland Railway
Opened from Gortatlea (Tralee and Killarney Railway) to Castleisland.
  /  /1882Limerick and Kerry Railway
The company's Tralee [LandKR] station is linked to the Tralee and Killarney Railway's Tralee station (the present station). The stations were on either side of Oakpark Road.
15/01/1885Killorglin Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway)
Opened from Farranfore (Tralee and Killarney Railway) to Killorglin.
  /  /1901Tralee and Killarney Railway Limerick and Kerry Railway
Connection between Tralee and Tralee [LandKR] brought into passenger use.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Killarney to Tralee

Substantial surviving water tower base at Farranfore, viewed from the station footbridge in August 2021, to the west of the existing station on the ...
Mark Poustie 01/08/2021
Farranfore station looking in the direction of Tralee on 1st August 2021. This was the junction for the Valencia Harbour branch, which used the left ...
Mark Poustie 01/08/2021
Farranfore, former junction for the branch to Valencia Harbour which made use of the right hand side of the former island platform. View looks towards ...
Mark Poustie 01/08/2021
View northwards from the footbridge at Farranfore, in the direction of Tralee, in August 2021. ...
Mark Poustie 01/08/2021
The junction at Gortatlea, Co Kerry, in the late 1980s looking southwest along the remains of the closed Castleisland branch. ...
Bill Roberton //
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