Cobh railway station

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Cobh

An Cóbh
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General information
Location Cobh
Ireland
Coordinates 51°50′55″N8°18′03″W / 51.848688°N 8.300944°W / 51.848688; -8.300944
Owned by Iarnród Éireann
Operated by Iarnród Éireann
Platforms1
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Cobh Heritage Centre, once the lobby of the town's railway station Heritage centre, An Cobh - geograph.org.uk - 249726.jpg
Cobh Heritage Centre, once the lobby of the town's railway station
HMS Warspite at Queenstown in the 1890s H.M.S. Warspite at Queenstown, now Cobh (7836986082).jpg
HMS Warspite at Queenstown in the 1890s

Cobh railway station serves the town of Cobh, County Cork. It is located in a red brick building adjacent to the town's Cobh Heritage Centre.

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It is the terminus of the on Cork-Cobh section of the Cork Suburban Rail line. Travel to Glounthaune station to transfer to Midleton. [1]

Description

The station is staffed part-time and has a single platform. The station is accessible only via a steep ramp. [2]

History

The station opened 10 March 1862 and was closed for goods traffic on 3 November 1975. [3]

It began life as the terminus of the Cobh (then Queenstown) section of the Cork, Youghal & Queenstown Railway. [4]

The present station occupies only a small part of the old station building. The original station was expanded greatly during the latter part of the 19th century as it served what was then Ireland's largest emigration port which was also an important way-point as the last port between Western Europe and North America. The station was also the main receiving centre for mails for Ireland and Britain from the United States and Canada. Mail would be brought by ship to Cobh, processed and forwarded by mail express trains to Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) on the outskirts of Dublin and on to Holyhead. This was faster than conveying by ship directly to Liverpool. [5]

It is famous for being the station where hundreds of survivors of the RMS Lusitania disaster left the town of Cobh after surviving the sinking.[ citation needed ]

With the development and growth of transatlantic air traffic Cobh lost its importance as a mail and passenger centre. A significant part of the train station remained largely unused until the opening of the Cobh Heritage Centre in the front part of the station in the 1980s. At that time the station was also reduced to a single platform. The freight yard of the station has now become a public carpark while another part of the station has become a covered carpark for Cobh Garda Station.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.irishrail.ie/index.jsp?p=119&n=147 Archived 2019-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Irish Rail Printable Timetables
  2. ↑ http://www.irishrail.ie/index.jsp?p=120&n=151 Archived 2012-01-23 at the Wayback Machine Irish Rail Accessibility Guide
  3. ↑ "Cobh station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
  4. ↑ "5c. On Track, Cork & its Railway Heritage | Cork Heritage". corkheritage.ie. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Railway Lines - Iarnród Éireann - Irish Rail". Archived from the original on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
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