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
| / /1853 | Tralee and Killarney Railway Incorporated. |
| / /1859 | Tralee and Killarney Railway Opened from Tralee Junction (Killarney Junction Railway) to Tralee. |
| / /1860 | Tralee and Killarney Railway Absorbed by Great Southern and Western Railway. |
| / /1875 | Castleisland Railway Opened from Gortatlea (Tralee and Killarney Railway) to Castleisland. |
| / /1882 | Limerick 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. |
| 15/01/1885 | Killorglin Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway) Opened from Farranfore (Tralee and Killarney Railway) to Killorglin. |
| / /1901 | Tralee 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
