Tralee and Dingle Light Railway

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Disused railway viaduct looking upstream on the Finglas River from Curraduff Bridge on the N86 road to Dingle

The Tralee and Dingle Light Railway and Tramway was a 31.65 mile (51 km) 3 ft (914 mm) gauge narrow gauge railway running between Tralee and Dingle, with a 6 mile (10 km) branch from Castlegregory Junction to Castlegregory, in County Kerry on the west coast of Ireland. It operated between 1891 and 1953, the Castlegregory branch closed at the outbreak of the Second World War. It was the most westerly railway line in Europe. A 3 km section has now been reopened as a preserved line^[1] between the Aquadome in Tralee and Blennerville Windmill.

The T&D in 1906

[edit] Sources

• The Dingle Train 1st Edition - 1996 David Rowlands, Walter McGrath, Tom Francis ISBN 1-871980-27-5 Plateway Press more
• The Tralee & Dingle Railway David G Rowlands Bradford Barton 1973
• The Tralee & Dingle Railway P B Whitehouse & Powell A J Locomotive Publishing Co 1958

[edit] See also

• TDR Class KN1
• TDR Class KN2
• TDR Class PN2
• History of rail transport in Ireland

[edit] Reference

[edit] External links

• Dingle scale model railway by Chester Model Railway Club
• Tralee & Dingle Railway history
• Tralee & Dingle Railway official website
• Virtual Project of T&D Railway
• Worsley Works produce kits for those who model the Tralee and Dingle Railway Web Site

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