Abandoned Station, Ireland. - a photo on Flickriver

Ballymartle station,Ballynalouhy, Co Cork, is now much changed and closed longer then it was ever open.

It was one of two immediate stations on the 11 mile branch of the Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway. Opened in April 1864 the station and the branch was one of Ireland’s earliest rail closures in August 1931. A remarkable ninety years since the station saw it’s last train. The station is now a private residence.

On opening, hopes had been high to capture the potentially lucrative fish traffic from Kinsale harbour, but Kinsale terminus sat high on a hill above the town and remoteness from the harbour did little to encourage this traffic.

The Allport Railway commission of 1888, recommended a extension to the harbour to help remedy the situation, but the railway ignored the commissions advice. Another fact working against the branch during the years of it's operation was
the Kinsale suffered severe depopulation. In 1841 The town had a population of 6,918 dropping to 1,500 by 1962.

The lack of fish traffic and passengers sealing the branch’s fate by 1931 after sixty seven years of operations.
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The branch's other intermediate station here.

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Taken in: Ireland / Munster / Ballynamaul Cross Roads (show map)

Taken on: August 31, 2013

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