Youghal railway station served the town of Youghal in County Cork, Ireland. The station opened on 21 May 1860. Regular services were withdrawn on 2 February 1963, although the station remained open privately, with occasional heritage excursion trains. Although a train has not travelled to Youghal since 1988, the station is legally still open.

The line came out of passenger service in 1963, but CIÉ continued to use the line for twice daily goods trains till 1978 and the sugar beet trains in season till 1982. CIE also ran summer seaside excursions to Youghal for passengers, however this apparently was never utilised to its full potential.[clarification needed]

In 1981/1982 the final beet crop in East Cork was realised and CIÉ then refused to maintain the line any longer or use it for summer excursions.

The line has never been legally closed in order for CIÉ to circumvent a European railway law,[which?] which states that all railways that are closed down have to be fully maintained for a further 10 years.[citation needed] The only maintenance the line received after 1982 was to cut down vegetation to allow infrequent private passenger trains to traverse the line at slow speeds. The last train to depart from the seaside station was in 1987 by the Irish Railway Record Society. The following year IÉ laid on two passenger trains for the GAA in Dublin from Midleton. The line was then abandoned and deliberately on the instructions of IÉ allowed to decay. Since 1988 IÉ showed little or no interest in the line only when they wanted to cannibalise it for parts for other lines, most notably 1992 when seven miles of track between Midleton and Youghal were removed for reuse in Sligo. IÉ has demolished old crossing keepers’ houses and just left the rubble lying in untidy heaps, has replaced the crossing gates at Mogeely but just dumped the old ones on the tracks along with the lever frame as well, making the stations looking very untidy for local residents. IÉ has consistently refused to tidy up the areas by the old stations (Mogeely, Killeagh and Youghal) and in recent times only re-roofed Youghal station due to a court order. IÉ refuses however to entertain or even consider allowing any form of private use for the disused railway corridor.

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