Halfway Viaduct
Halfway Viaduct on 24th August 2019. Halfway to where you may ask? The village of Halfway is roughly halfway to Bandon from Cork so that may have been where it got its name. The Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway (originally the Cork and Bandon Railway) was a standard Irish gauge system opened in stages from 1849, reaching Bandon by 1851, a branch to Kinsale (1863), Dunmanway (1866), Dunmanway to Skibbereen (1877), Bantry (1881), a branch to Clonakilty (1886) and Skibbereen to Baltimore (1893). Most of the extensions and branches were originally independent companies but were gradually taken over by the CB&SCR. In 1924 the CB&SCR became part of the Great Southern Railway which in turn became part of CIE in 1945. Closure, in the face of considerable public anger, came on 1st April 1961. There were plans a few years ago to turn much of the route into a Greenway cycle and walkway (there are a number of highly successful such routes on disused Irish lines) but so far these have come to nothing.
Location: Halfway Viaduct
Original line: Cork and Bandon Railway
Photographer: Mark Poustie
Contact photographer: Mark Poustie
Date: 24/08/2019
Image number: 74207
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