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Rails to the Sea: How Ireland’s Railways Made Seaside Tourism

From Kingstown day‑trippers to Balfour’s light lines and today’s greenways, Ireland’s railways created seaside resorts, opened the wild west to tourists, and then carried generations away when the tracks began to close.

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