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Wick To Lybster Light Railway
Railway (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Wick To Lybster Light Railway
Classification Railway (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 272088
Site Number ND34SW 499
NGR ND 32502 43420
NGR Description ND 3355 4500 to ND 3139 4000
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/272088
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 499 ND ND 3355 4500 to ND 3139 4000
The path of the Wick-Lybster branch-line of the former Highland Railway is visible as a series of low embankments and shallow cuttings, which have either been incorporated into fields of pasture or else left as waste ground between fields. At Lineside farmsteading (ND34SW 439) a building has been constructed across the trackbed, and at several other locations the line of the old railway is now used as a dump for field-cleared stones. A feature of the line is the number of crossings at which there are still preserved cast iron gate-posts made at the Rose Street Foundry in Inverness (NH64NE 211). At some of the crossings the original gates are also still in place, but mostly they have been removed. The crossing immediately N of the now disused Borrowston Quarry (ND34SW 314) at ND 32502 43420 was recorded photographically. The locations of the surviving gateposts at another (ND 32502 43420), immediately W of Whiteleen Cottage, were recorded by GPS.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 24 May 2004.
