Limerick–Tralee railway line

The Rathkeale and Newcastle Junction Railway Company were responsible for the section 10 miles (16 km) section from Ballingrane Junction to Newcastle West with the Limerick and Kerry Railway Company taking responsibility for remainder of the line to Tralee which opened in December 1880.

All sections were operated by the Waterford and Limerick Railway (W&LR) as they opened.

After the war, the Transport Act 1944[3] dissolved the GSR and brought its assets into the ownership of Córas Iompair Éireann on 1 January 1945.

The Foynes–Limerick section of the line was open to freight traffic until 2001, when it was closed and mothballed.

It began at Colbert station in Limerick, and passed through: Patrickswell, where a branch line to Charleville connected there with the Dublin-Cork railway line, Adare, a second branch connected with the freight port at Foynes diverging at Ballingrane Junction, Rathkeale, Newcastle West, Abbeyfeale, Listowel, where a connection was made with the Lartigue Monorail to Ballybunnion, Lixnaw, Abbeydorney, Ardfert, and finally Tralee, where trains continued to Killarney and Mallow, and a branch line went to Fenit.