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Cobh Station
County Cork
Latitude 51.848895 Longitude -8.2989598
Grid Reference W 79456630
Last Visit Date 20/09/2008


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Site Description

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).

Photographs


Photo Gallery - Cobh Station
Google Street View - Cobh Station
Geograph.ie - Heritage Centre (in station building) (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Railway Station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Garda Station (in locomotive shed) (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Train in Cobh station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Station building (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Train in station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Train entering station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Train entering station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Train leaving station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Train leaving station (Link checked 28072021)
Geograph.ie - Station building (Link checked 28072021)

Links


Irish Rail Station Information - Cobh Station (Link checked 28072021)
Titanic Experience, Cobh (Link checked 28072021)
RTE Archives - 1995 train crash (Link checked 28072021)

Chronological Details

Opened Closed Company Name Notes
10/03/1862 / /Open C&YR Cobh

Geographical Details

Section StartSection FinishDistanceMilepostMeasured from
Cork Cobh 11.25 176.75 Heuston Station

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