November 2011
looks like I should have put the date in the title but can't edit it Sorry.
First posting so don't shout at me too much if I do it wrong! I did a search and I don't think this has been done befor.
Quartertown Mill is about 2 miles from Mallow Town in north Co Cork and was once served by its own short branch line off the Mallow to Killarney line, not far from the Mallow Sugar Factory, [which itself was served by an (even shorter) branch line].I'm told wagons would be shunted to the Mill by being propelled from Mallow Goods Yard (an unusual movement imo as it involved heading down the Main Line towards Cork to and branching off on to the Killarney line).I think it more likely (given the layout at the Mill that this is incorrect and wagons were propelled TO Mallow.
A small industrial estate has been built over the site of the branch line but at two points on its perimeter road you can still tarce the branch line
here marked by a hump in the road that has been tarmaced in recent years but up til recently the tracks were still there and may be yet, buried
the second cropssing is even better preserved
At the Mill, this siding remains alongside the loading dock of the newer Mill building. The actual branch would have arrived alongside this siding ,from the direction beyond the buffer stops,(roughly under my car) and the wagons would have been shunted back into this bay. I could not see any evidence of the tracks extending to the older building in the distance, thats not to say they didnt though.
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looks like I should have put the date in the title but can't edit it Sorry.
First posting so don't shout at me too much if I do it wrong! I did a search and I don't think this has been done befor.
Quartertown Mill is about 2 miles from Mallow Town in north Co Cork and was once served by its own short branch line off the Mallow to Killarney line, not far from the Mallow Sugar Factory, [which itself was served by an (even shorter) branch line].I'm told wagons would be shunted to the Mill by being propelled from Mallow Goods Yard (an unusual movement imo as it involved heading down the Main Line towards Cork to and branching off on to the Killarney line).I think it more likely (given the layout at the Mill that this is incorrect and wagons were propelled TO Mallow.
A small industrial estate has been built over the site of the branch line but at two points on its perimeter road you can still tarce the branch line
here marked by a hump in the road that has been tarmaced in recent years but up til recently the tracks were still there and may be yet, buried
the second cropssing is even better preserved
At the Mill, this siding remains alongside the loading dock of the newer Mill building. The actual branch would have arrived alongside this siding ,from the direction beyond the buffer stops,(roughly under my car) and the wagons would have been shunted back into this bay. I could not see any evidence of the tracks extending to the older building in the distance, thats not to say they didnt though.
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