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In the early 21st century some of the remaining listed/protected structures bordering the Albert Quay station were incorporated into the Enterprise Ireland "Webworks" office development on Eglinton Street and Albert Quay. This included the building formerly housing the CIÉ area offices, [1] which is now known as Albert Quay House. [2] [3]
The old City Hall was designed by Cork architect Henry Hill in the neoclassical style, built by Sir Thomas Deane in ashlar stone and was completed in 1843. [1] In 1852 the building was altered by Sir John Benson to facilitate the Cork Exhibition, opening on 10 June 1852. Following the closure of a second exhibition in 1883, the building was ...
Albert Quay terminus Cork, 1948. Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR), was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway in Ireland.It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR), changed its name to Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway in 1888 and became part of the Great Southern Railway (GSR) in 1924.
The Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway did not start from Cork. Instead, in 1849, they opened the first section between Bandon and Ballinhassig in December 1849. After financial problems, they reached Cork Albert Quay two years later, after completion of the Ballinhassig tunnel and the Chetwynd Viaduct.
English: Cork, Albert Quay station; Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway, 1948 View to buffer-stops of the station in its 'active' days; it closed to passengers 1/4/61, to goods 15/7/67. (Cf.
Albert Quay, Anglesea Street Parnell Place ( Irish : Plás Parnell ) [ 1 ] is a street in Cork , Ireland. It is a major south-to-north route across the city centre, and the location of Parnell Place Bus Station .
Cork City Hall is located along Albert Quay on the south side of the city. It officially opened on 8 September 1936, following the previous building being destroyed in the " Burning of Cork " in 1920.
The Cork Terminus was relocated to Albert Park in 1873, nearer the city centre and closer to the Albert Quay station of the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway, the move being subsidised as the City Quay site was needed for development of the docks. [7