Cork and Youghal Railway

Cork and Youghal Railway
GS&WR train at Youghal 1902
Overview
Other name(s)Cork, Youghal and Queenstown Direct
Service
Typeheavy rail
Services
  • Cork—Youghal
  • Cork—Cobh(Queenstown)
History
Opened10 November 1859 (1859-11-10)[a]
Completed10 March 1862 (1862-03-10)
Technical
Line length34 mi (55 km)
Track gauge5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)
Route map

Cork Summerhill
Cork Penrose Quay (GS&WR)
(GS&WR to/from Dublin)
Cork Glanmire Road (Kent) 1893
(Junction opened 1866)
Tivoli (closed)
Dunkettle
Little Island
Glounthaune
Fota
Carrigaloe
Rushbrooke
Cobh (Queenstown)
Carrigtwohill
Midleton
Mogeely
Killeagh
Youghal
Cork and Youghal Railway (from Viceregal Commission 1906 map)
GS&WR Penrose Quay and C&YR Summerhill stations

The Cork and Youghal Railway (C&YR) was a company that built and operated a short 27 miles (43 km) railway built in the early 1860s in Ireland linking Cork with Youghal, a small resort with harbour at the mouth of the Munster Blackwater. There was an additional 6-mile (9.7 km) branch to Cobh (Queenstown), a deepwater port in Cork Harbour associated with transatlantic liners.[1][2] The railway was forced into administration within a few short years due to the bankruptcy of major shareholder David Leopold Lewis and was taken over by the much larger Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR). The branch to Cobh became the main line and by the late 1980s was the only part of the previously extensive rail network around Cork City to remain operational apart from the main line to Dublin. 2009 saw the Midleton branch re-open to Cork while the remainder of the route is being converted to a greenway in the 2020s.


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