Valencia Harbour
Valentia Harbour, looking to Valentia Island beyond, on 27th October 2019. The buffer stops on the headshunt at Valentia Harbour were roughly where the pick-up truck is sitting on the right. This was the westernmost railway line in Europe, marginally further west than the Tralee & Dingle Light Railway at Dingle. The site of the station now lies under a fish processing plant to the right of the photographer but there is a plaque commemorating the railway line nearby. Valencia Harbour (also known as Reenard Point) is commonly spelled as Valentia Harbour but the station nameboards used the former spelling. The railway from Farranfore, on the Tralee to Mallow, line reached here in 1893 but it closed on 1st Febrary 1960.
Location: Valencia Harbour
Original line: Valentia Harbour Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway)
Photographer: Mark Poustie
Contact photographer: Mark Poustie
Date: 27/10/2019
Image number: 73921
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