Archaeology Notes

Event ID 775667

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG72NE 9 centred 76246 27134

For nearby (railway) hotel, see NG72NE 6.

Kyle of Lochalsh Station [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1974.

(Location cited as NG 763 279). Kyle of Lochalsh station and pier. Opened 1897 by the Highland Rly, engineer Murdoch Paterson.

J R Hume 1977.

Highland Railway. Opened 2 November 1897.

J Thomas 1977.

Kyle of Lochalsh was HMS Trelawney and the secret code was Port ZA. It was from here that all the mine-laying of the entire British fleety was carried out. The mines were stored in special sidings along the railway line from Dingwall.

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.1, 56