Cork Railway Tunnel 

A lot of the goods depot and areas around the station are built on the backfill from the tunnel. A lot of it was dug up when the Dean Hotel was under construction. The gradient is 1 in 75 through the tunnel and after Kilbarry it steepened to 1 in 60 to Rathpeacon. It took 3 steam engines to lift the heavy mail trains from Cork , 2 in front and a banking engine at the rear. The 3 Queen 800 class locos did it solo. The Madbh , Macha and Tailte. built in 1937 at Inchicore.

You’re a legend for making the video I’m from Dublin 🇮🇪💙

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Unbelievable engineering for it’s time wasn’t it AND to do a massive brick arch too 🤯🤯🤯

Very Very interesting. Thanks s much

Brilliant 👏 thanks for sharing and the information. So interesting

How interesting, thank you!

Brilliant

I was just wondering about the history of the tunnel the other day actually, so this is very timely. God knows, we wouldn't build anything like it thesedays anyway.

William

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Aye.