Tom, this is extremely important footage of the Cork City Railway over 50 years ago with an absolute wealth of historical data on trains, rolling stock, contemporary Irish cars, Navy & cream buses, red CIE A & C classes, trucks, buildings, traffic flows, CIE logos, the dereliction at Albert Quay only 5 years after closure. Probably best appreciated by those who had some connection or visited the area at that time. Many thanks to you for digitizing this and to Colm Creedon RIP. BIG thumbs up on this one and subscribed.
Politicians were great a closing things down back in the day. Need to reopen full line to Youghal to seve east Cork. You can still have your bicycle lane beside it. Unfortunately west Cork will not see a rail link again. I remember bits of it going to Ballingeary for Irish courses when I was packed away for 3 weeks from Dublin. Great footage you have of the city railway
My grandmother had a B&B at 101 Lower Glanmire Road (just to the east of Cork Kent Station) and one of my earliest memories is her taking me up towards the bridges in this video to watch the trains going back and forth. I was about 4 years old - and yes, I remember it like it was yesterday.
I remember being told when I was very young that my eldest sister and first born was in a pram with my parents crossing that bridge when it became caught on a passing train or tram and both had to run after it. She was born in 1952 and I was born in 1959 so I was about 7 when this was shot. I remember crossing the bridge many times, but don't remember seeing trains cross it. We lived off Shandon Street. I left Cork in 1977 and haven't really been back. Nice to see some older footage. I wouldn't recognise the place now, and I have seen recent drive thru videos. City centre seems smaller. I remember the Kent station very very well. Thanks for the great video.
Amazing. I remember seeing such a train when I was a young child going over the bridge. It’s interesting to see how run down that part of the city was then. Priceless footage.
Very nostalgic,thank you colm,i remember this scene very well, also remember livestock being herded down the streets to the Innisfallen ,berthed at the nearby quay.
Marvellous footage! In case anybody is wondering, this line ran over the streets between Kent Station and two stations in the West of the city: The Blarney/Donoghmore line on the Western Road and another station on IIRC Aston Quay with lines to Bantry and Kinsale and a narrow gauge line to Macroom. Trains were restricted to i) freight only ii) the crawl speed shown and iii) the use of a worker walking ahead with a red flag. The city and its traders didn't want through traffic. They wanted to force travellers to stop in the city so as to drum up business. Because of the artificial restrictions, all the Western lines mentioned eventually became uneconomical and were shut down. All in all, a shot in the foot for the city and county.
Lived in cork all my life , still relatively young per se but i have always wanted to take a walk around cork back in these days seems like it really was an entirely different city
I was 9 that time ! the man that took that was a railway historian and he was involved in the Save our Railways Association which fought the closure of the West Cork Railway.
It was the link between Corks Glanmire Road station and Albert Quay station for the Cork to Bantry line which closed in March 1961 . There was braches to Courtmacsherry, Clonakilty and Baltimore off it. Albert Quay continued as a freight depot where fertilizer from the nearby Gouildings factory was brought there to be loaded on wagons and brought to Glanmire Road now Kent Station. Tar traffic for the council was also carried. The city Railway closed in 1976.
Tom, this is extremely important footage of the Cork City Railway over 50 years ago with an absolute wealth of historical data on trains, rolling stock, contemporary Irish cars, Navy & cream buses, red CIE A & C classes, trucks, buildings, traffic flows, CIE logos, the dereliction at Albert Quay only 5 years after closure. Probably best appreciated by those who had some connection or visited the area at that time. Many thanks to you for digitizing this and to Colm Creedon RIP. BIG thumbs up on this one and subscribed.
Politicians were great a closing things down back in the day. Need to reopen full line to Youghal to seve east Cork. You can still have your bicycle lane beside it. Unfortunately west Cork will not see a rail link again. I remember bits of it going to Ballingeary for Irish courses when I was packed away for 3 weeks from Dublin. Great footage you have of the city railway
My grandmother had a B&B at 101 Lower Glanmire Road (just to the east of Cork Kent Station) and one of my earliest memories is her taking me up towards the bridges in this video to watch the trains going back and forth. I was about 4 years old - and yes, I remember it like it was yesterday.
That's some fine footage, many thanks for sharing Tom.
I remember being told when I was very young that my eldest sister and first born was in a pram with my parents crossing that bridge when it became caught on a passing train or tram and both had to run after it.
She was born in 1952 and I was born in 1959 so I was about 7 when this was shot.
I remember crossing the bridge many times, but don't remember seeing trains cross it.
We lived off Shandon Street.
I left Cork in 1977 and haven't really been back.
Nice to see some older footage.
I wouldn't recognise the place now, and I have seen recent drive thru videos. City centre seems smaller.
I remember the Kent station very very well.
Thanks for the great video.
I remember being a young boy visiting Cork with my family and seeing the trains driving across them bridges. The good old days.
I used to hitch a ride to Albert Quay when going over with letters from the goods office.
Come to Manchester......nuff trains nuff bridges
@@RYNT1157 Hi Tom, I wonder do you remember a Con Corkery working in the goods office, he was my grandad, would have been in the early 1970s?
@@lark49 The name does ring a bell , there was a Mick Corkery there too.
@@RYNT1157 My grandad was from Millstreet, worked in the station in Newcastlewest, Tralee then Cork
Amazing. I remember seeing such a train when I was a young child going over the bridge. It’s interesting to see how run down that part of the city was then. Priceless footage.
Very nostalgic,thank you colm,i remember this scene very well, also remember livestock being herded down the streets to the Innisfallen ,berthed at the nearby quay.
Tks for this Tom. Hard to believe that Albert Quay survived another 10 years after that. The place was in a sorry state even then.
Great to watch videos of days long gone. Cork, the greatest of cities. Thanks for the video Tom, appreciated.
Marvellous footage!
In case anybody is wondering, this line ran over the streets between Kent Station and two stations in the West of the city: The Blarney/Donoghmore line on the Western Road and another station on IIRC Aston Quay with lines to Bantry and Kinsale and a narrow gauge line to Macroom. Trains were restricted to i) freight only ii) the crawl speed shown and iii) the use of a worker walking ahead with a red flag.
The city and its traders didn't want through traffic. They wanted to force travellers to stop in the city so as to drum up business. Because of the artificial restrictions, all the Western lines mentioned eventually became uneconomical and were shut down.
All in all, a shot in the foot for the city and county.
Absolutely magical footage Tom (and Colm). Thank you so much for sharing this film.
No problem , it was great I had it as Colm was a good friend.
Lived in cork all my life , still relatively young per se but i have always wanted to take a walk around cork back in these days seems like it really was an entirely different city
Absolutely fantastic footage, I was born that year in cork, thank you tom.
I was 9 that time ! the man that took that was a railway historian and he was involved in the Save our Railways Association which fought the closure of the West Cork Railway.
@@RYNT1157 Shame they didn't have to foresight to protect this infrastructure. Would be invaluable to us today.
Thanks for this..before I was born but the city seemed a gentler place
I'm not from Cork but that is a wonderful archive to have. Splendid stuff.
Thank you, Tom, god bless x
Fascinating.
super video
Super vid thank you I remember the goods yard out near the gas works
Wow, some really great & historic footage Tom!
Thank you 👍
Brilliant stuff Tom.
Magical Priceless Days.
Fantastic
Lovely..
Can anyone tell me when trains stopped traversing through the City to Albert Quay. I’m almost certain ive seen them as a child late 70s, early 80s?
1976 the city line closed.
Brilliant to see the guy near the end walking/limping in front of the loco, while waving a red flag.
I think that could be the late Ned Dorgan that lived between Littleisland and Glounthaune.
Does anyone know the building on stilts @6.30-7.15. Where a green C Class is shunting tarpaulin covered wagons, is it a signal cabin ?
Yes it was the Albert Quay signal cabin , it was knocked shortly after.
@@RYNT1157 Thanks Tom.
Better times
tom ? for ya remember the locomotive hitting the car at the side of laneway coming out by colusiem back in the day have ya any pic of it ?
I don't have any photos of that sorry.
Can someone tell me why they had such a freight train running through Cork city? It seems a little strange!
It was the link between Corks Glanmire Road station and Albert Quay station for the Cork to Bantry line which closed in March 1961 . There was braches to Courtmacsherry, Clonakilty and Baltimore off it. Albert Quay continued as a freight depot where fertilizer from the nearby Gouildings factory was brought there to be loaded on wagons and brought to Glanmire Road now Kent Station. Tar traffic for the council was also carried. The city Railway closed in 1976.
@@RYNT1157 thanks 👍
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