Valentia Harbour Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway)
Introduction
This closed scenic minor line led to Valencia Harbour (or Valentia) the furthest west station in the British Isles.
Dates
| / /1890 | Valentia Harbour Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway) Under construction, using Government finance. |
| / /1893 | Valentia Harbour Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway) Opened from Killorglin (Killorglin Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway)) to Valentia Harbour. |
| / /1958 | Killorglin Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway)
Valentia Harbour Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway) Diesel introduced. |
| / /1960 | Killorglin Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway)
Valentia Harbour Branch (Great Southern and Western Railway) Closed. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Killorglin to Valentia
A memorial board commemorates the former station site at Killorglin which lay behind the board and has long since been swept away. Killorglin is the ...Mark Poustie 11/08/2023
A surviving bridge over the former trackbed between Killorglin Viaduct and the former Killorglin station site. View looks west towards the former ...Mark Poustie 20/06/2021
A further memorial to the railway at Killorglin with a statue of a waiting passenger and a porters barrow which may or may not be original. The ...Mark Poustie 20/06/2021
Just west of Glenbeigh, a view westwards towards Mountain Stage on the section of trackbed currently under conversion to the South Kerry Greenway. ...Mark Poustie 01/05/2023
View east towards Glenbeigh in May 2023, with the eastern abutment of a bridge over a local road standing tall here. The western abutment behind the ...Mark Poustie 01/05/2023
A view of the abutments of the former bridge over the River Behy with Glenbeigh village and station off to the left. A car park is being formed in the ...Mark Poustie 01/05/2023
A view east towards Glenbeigh station, towards the start of the section of the trackbed currently under conversion to the South Kerry Greenway. This ...Mark Poustie 01/05/2023
A view across the bridge, which once spanned the tracks at Mountain Stage, to the station master's house, the only surviving relic of this station. ...Mark Poustie 01/05/2023
This is the site of Mountain Stage statio,n between Glenbeigh and Kells, looking east in the direction of Glenbeigh. The trackbed is now occupied by ...Mark Poustie 01/05/2023
Farranfore to Valencia Harbour Branch. The former Kells Station survives in remarkably good condition with both platforms and the station building ...Mark Poustie 19/06/2021
Farranfore to Valencia Harbour Branch. Close up of the former Kells signal box, in June 2021, with train lamps visible inside. The site here is well ...Mark Poustie 19/06/2021
Kells station signal box on 27th October 2019. The station is now a heritage centre. Mountain Stage was the next station to the east and Cahirciveen ...Mark Poustie 27/10/2019
Cahirciveen Viaduct, looking east in the direction of Kells, on the Farranfore to Valentia Harbour branch on 27th October 2019. One of the major ...Mark Poustie 27/05/2019
Looking east to the blocked off eastern end of Cahirciveen Viaduct, in the direction of Kells, on 27th October 2019. Hopefully the South Kerry ...Mark Poustie 27/10/2019
Looking westwards along the Valentia branch trackbed at Cahirciveen (also spelt Cahirsiveen) towards the site of the former station, which was just ...Mark Poustie 27/10/2019
Once the furthest west station in the British Isles, now closed. Also spelled Valentia Harbour, but 'Valencia' was used on the station name board. The harbour served the nearby Valentia Island. Plans to develop a port for America did not come to fruition and the railway remained a scenic low traffic...
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The former stationmaster's cottage at Valentia Harbour station site in 1988. It was demolished in 2014....
Bill Roberton //1988
Valentia Harbour, looking to Valentia Island beyond, on 27th October 2019. The buffer stops on the headshunt at Valentia Harbour were roughly where ...Mark Poustie 27/10/2019
