Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway

Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway

1920 map of the railway
Overview
Dates of operation	1849 (1849)–1961 (1961)
Successor	Great Southern Railways
Technical
Track gauge	5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)
Length	94 miles 10 chains (151.5 km) (1919)[1]
Track length	112 miles 60 chains (181.5 km) (1919)[1]
Route map v t e Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway Legend Cork City Railways Cork Albert Quay Chetwynd Viaduct Waterfall Ballinhassig Junction Ballymartle Farrangalway Kinsale Upton and Innishannon Bandon Bandon West Castle Bernard Clonakilty Junction Ballinascarthy Clonakilty Skeaf Timoleague Courtmacsherry Desert Ballineen and Enniskean Dunmanway Knuckbue Drimoleague Durrus Road Bantry Bantry Town Madore Skibbereen Schull and Skibbereen Railway Creagh Baltimore

Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR), was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway in Ireland. It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR), changed its name to Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway in 1888 and became part of the Great Southern Railway (GSR) in 1924.

The CB&SCR served the south coast of County Cork between Cork and Bantry. It had a route length of 94 miles (151 km),^[2] all of it single track. Many road car routes connected with the line, including the route from Bantry to Killarney.

Following absorption into the GSR and the network could be referred to as the West Cork Railways^[a] or variations thereof, this also encompassing the former previously independent Cork and Macroom Direct Railway and the Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Railway.^[4]

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