View from NE showing Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh train in station

Description View from NE showing Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh train in station

Date 26/5/1976

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 795789

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh train at Achnasheen Station, Highland This view, taken from the north-east on 26 May 1976 from the east-bound platform, shows an Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh train about to leave. The train is headed by a type 26 diesel-electric locomotive, of a class introduced in 1958, built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd. The type 26s were the usual motive power on the railways north of Inverness from the early 1960s until the late 1970s. Achnasheen, about halfway between Dingwall and Kyle of Lochalsh, was, in the 1970s, an important interchange point between rail and road services. This station was opened in 1870 by the Dingwall & Skye Railway, which ran from Dingwall to Strome Ferry, where there was a pier for steamer services to Skye and other places on the western seaboard. In 1897 the line was extended from Strome Ferry to Kyle of Lochlash. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT89

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