Heritage route
Waterford & Suir Valley Railway
Kilmeaden → Bilberry · Ireland
Waterford & Suir Valley Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 10 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 13 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Waterford & Suir Valley Railway
- Train
- Hunslet diesel locomotive · open-sided carriages
- Countries
- Ireland
- In service since
- 2003
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Narrow-gauge trains follow the tidal River Suir on the trackbed of an 1878 mainline, running alongside the Waterford Greenway cycle path.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 32 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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