West Cork Railways
Introduction
This railway extended west from the Cork and Bandon Railway to Dunmanway.
Dates
| / /1860 | West Cork Railways Incorporated. |
| / /1866 | West Cork Railways Opened from Bandon (alongside the Cork and Bandon Railway station) to Dunmanway. |
| / /1877 | Ilen Valley Railway Opened between Dunmanway (West Cork Railways) and Skibbereen. |
| / /1880 | West Cork Railways Merged with the Cork and Bandon Railway. |
| / /1886 | Clonakilty Extension Railway Opened from Clonakilty Junction (West Cork Railways) and Clonakilty. |
| / /1961 | Cork and Bandon Railway
Clonakilty Extension Railway
West Cork Railways
Ilen Valley Railway
Baltimore Extension Railway
Bantry Extension Railway
Bantry Bay Extension Railway
Closed. The terminus at Cork Albert Quay remains open as a goods depot, accessed by the Cork City Railways. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Bandon to Dunmanway
A surviving 3/4 mile post on the former trackbed of the CB&SCR now laid out as a walkway between Bandon and the now removed Innishannon Viaduct. ...Mark Poustie 10/07/2020
Surviving two arch bridge to the west of Bandon now in the western outskirts of the town, adjacent to the N71 road. Clonakilty Junction is to the left ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
View of the former up (Cork) side of the island platform and station buildings at Bandon. The trackbed has been removed, presumably to facilitate the ...Mark Poustie 11/07/2020
Bandon High Level Station looking east towards Cork on 17th June 2020. The CB&SCR reached Bandon in 1849 and originally terminated at a low level ...Mark Poustie 17/06/2020
Clonakilty Junction, and the steps which led down to the platforms from the original N71 road, with the former station master's house on the right. ...Mark Poustie 17/06/2020
Clonakilty Junction. Original and now rather dilipidated nameboard with the former station master's house to the right. The station is located in the ...Mark Poustie 17/06/2020
The former Desert Station between Clonakilty Junction and Ballineen & Enniskeane on the line west to Bantry, Skibbereen and Baltimore. The station ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
Surviving overbridge at the former Desert station, looking south. Although the bridge survives, nothing of the trackbed survives. The station ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
The former Desert station taken from a surviving overbridge. The view looks west to Ballineen & Enniskeane. While the station building survives in ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
The surviving goods shed at Desert, looking very isolated in a field with the goods loading bank removed, in May 2021. Unlike the former station ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
The former edge of the up (Cork) platform at Ballineen and Enniskeane is visible running up to the wall of the playpark with the now abandoned station ...Mark Poustie 11/07/2020
The substantial former station building, and station master's house, at Ballineen & Enniskean between Clonakilty Junction and Dunmanway. The building ...Mark Poustie 11/07/2020
The substantial surviving goods shed and loading dock at Ballineen & Enniskean seen on a very wet day in May 2021. Located just to the west of the ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
A surviving water column at the eastern end of the Cork platform at Ballineen & Enniskean on a wet May day in 2021. The platform edge survives ...Mark Poustie 03/05/2021
Remarkably, an intact water column survives at what would have been the western end of the down platform at Dunmanway. Although somewhat enclosed by ...Mark Poustie 30/06/2020
View of the former Dunmanway station building, now a vet clinic, on the up (Cork) platform at Dunmanway. The platform ramp can be made out and the ...Mark Poustie 29/06/2020
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