Cork Suburban Rail

[citation needed] A single weekday service, the 06:15 Cork Kent to Dublin Heuston express, does not stop at Mallow.

It involved the provision of a 10 km (6.25 miles) single track railway to Midleton with a passing loop at Carrigtwohill, new bridges to replace level crossings, improving existing bridges, new signalling systems and the reopening of Carrigtwohill and Midleton stations.

The line to Youghal railway station had irregular freight and "special" passenger train traffic up until 1988 when it was fully closed and became derelict.

[citation needed] The "Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy 2040", published in 2019, proposed the electrification of the suburban rail and the addition of new stations on the Cork to Cobh line at Tivoli, Dunkettle, Ballynoe, Carrigtwohill West and Water Rock, and at Blarney, Monard, and Blackpool on the Mallow line.

[7] Permission was granted by An Bord Pleanala in November 2023 to double track the line between Midleton and Glounthaune.

[8] Funding for the plan was partially provided as part of the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility, developed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.