Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway

The Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway was an Irish railway company that operated in County Cork on the 1,600 mm Irish gauge. It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway, linking Cork to Bandon, and took its later name in 1888 after absorbing the West Cork Railway in 1882 and the Ilen Valley Railway in 1909 and extending its reach toward Bantry and the south coast. At its fullest extent the network ran about 94 miles, entirely single track. The company was absorbed into the Great Southern Railways in the 1924-25 amalgamation of Irish railways, and the line it built closed on 1 April 1961. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/