Plans to Extend the Line

North Waterford Railway Station

North Waterford Railway Station

© Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

North Waterford Railway Station
© Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

North Waterford Railway Station

North Waterford Railway Station

© Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

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The Waterford to Tramore Railway line was unconnected physically with other railways. The line remained a separate entity despite several schemes and ideas to extend it.

The Manor Station and Waterford North Station (the main station in Waterford) were a mile apart – a distance that had to be covered on foot by all the summer visitors, who came from all the surrounding counties to Tramore.

In 1854 an extension of 6 ½ miles was planned to the small seaside village of Dunmore East. Difficulty in obtaining land free of charge and the desire of the residents of Dunmore to keep their resort select caused the scheme to be abandoned. Similar plans were proposed twice again in 1862 and 1878 but they failed each time.

In 1862 an Act was obtained for a railway from Waterford to Passage East 9 ½ long but the scheme came to nothing. Other schemes proposed an extension of the line to link with the railways on the north bank of the Suir as well as a line round the south side of Waterford to join with the Waterford, Dungarvan and Lismore Railway, but these too came to nothing and the Waterford to Tramore Line remained a separate entity for all of it's 108 year existence.