Approaching the station, the Irish Naval base at Haulbowline can be seen on the Up side on the far side of Cork Harbour. This area contains a number of architecturally impressive buildings. Adjacent to these is the Irish Steel plant. There has been a 4'8½" gauge railway
on the island from Haulbowline's days as a British naval base. A section remained in use by Irish Steel until they ceased operating.
The disused signal cabin is on the Down side at the Cork end of the station here. Until 2005, there was an OCS panel in the cabin to control the sidings at Marino Point. The former carriage shed has been architecturally destroyed by the removal of its roof to permit the
building of a police station on the site. The station buildings are on the single platform on the Down side. The double track line ends in a common headshunt at the east end of the station.
There was previously an Up platform and a terminal containing a booking office and customs hall on Up side, a relic of Cobh's days as a transatlantic port of call, but this area was walled off and sold. There is a heritage centre behind the station in the original station
building, which received an unwelcome visitor in the guise of loco no. 165 crashing through the buffer stops at the end of the station in 1995.
There was previously a siding on the Up side of the station (seaward side).
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