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Tralee to Dingle Line.

  • 05-10-2019 11:52AM
    #1
    Cushtie
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    Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. Mods, please move if needs be.

    Does anyone know what the status of the Tralee to Dingle Line is now. I belive the last trains ran back in the 1950's. Is the line still there or has it reverted back to ownership of the landowners?

    I always thought it would be good route for a greenaway but never saw anything about it and a quick Google doesn't throw up too much.


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    Del.Monte
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    Cushtie wrote: »
    Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. Mods, please move if needs be.

    Does anyone know what the status of the Tralee to Dingle Line is now. I belive the last trains ran back in the 1950's. Is the line still there or has it reverted back to ownership of the landowners?

    I always thought it would be good route for a greenaway but never saw anything about it and a quick Google doesn't throw up too much.


    There's nothing left in terms of track etc. and as most of the route was on, or near, the public road it would not be suitable for a greenway.

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  • #3
    tabbey
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    Del.Monte wrote: »
    There's nothing left in terms of track etc. and as most of the route was on, or near, the public road it would not be suitable for a greenway.

    Apart from the bit to Blennerville, which was restored some years ago, reopened and subsequently discontinued.

    It had a touch of a theme park, with Spanish coaches and a loco that was smaller in comparison to the coaches.


  • #4
    whisky_galore
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    A good bit of it was on the roadside, now eaten up with road widening. The rest, now fields or overgrown. There's not enough uninterrupted trackbed at this point to make any sort of trail out of it I would think.
    I'm not aware of any of it still in state ownership apart from a small yard for Bus Éireann buses at Dingle. They might as well make a greenway out of the derelict stretch from the Aquadome to Blennerville as no one is going to run a railway again despite all the big talk about same.


  • #5
    Cushtie
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    Hi Folks. Thanks for the replies.


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    Open OSI Goehive and select "make map".
    You can open aerial photos and old maps at the same time. Slide bars allow you to change the transparency of your selected map or aerial photo. It's a great way to see how fooked a former rail route has become by comparing a circa 1910 map to now.

    The CMDR is partly under water now!


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  • #7
    Isambard
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    tabbey wrote: »
    Apart from the bit to Blennerville, which was restored some years ago, reopened and subsequently discontinued.

    It had a touch of a theme park, with Spanish coaches and a loco that was smaller in comparison to the coaches.

    and mainline height platforms in the wrong place and worst of all an Owner who thought they were running a train ride rather than restoring a piece of history.


  • #8
    marno21
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    The planned N86 upgrade from Dingle to Camp will feature cycle lanes on both sides of the road (unfortunately there are no proposals for the busier section from Camp to Tralee). This is likely as close to a greenway as we're going to get along the route.


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