The Irish Times

It might seem a laudable nod to conservation but the fact that the makers of The Great Train Robbery used Cork's Kent station to double for a Victorian train station indicates just how little was done to develop the terminus over the last century. That was back in 1978 and since then the station, which was built in 1893, has remained substantially unaltered.

However, that's all about to change now with an imaginative plan which will see it modernised while retaining its red-bricked Victorian charm. The plan, drawn up by Iarnród Éireann, aims literally to make the station more central to the commuting needs of the people of Cork, in an attempt to ease the gradually increasing traffic gridlock on the approach roads and streets of Cork.