Duirinish
This looks like Scotland's rail equivalent of the Kinder Scout 'mass trespass', but in fact is almost certainly a 1973-74 official visit (via Duirinish station and the railway track) to the proposed oil platform construction yard at nearby Drumbeg by the Public Inquiry team, witnesses, objectors and supporters. The scheme was thrown out, and an alternative, less controversial, site developed on the north side of Loch Carron at Kishorn, which generated valuable freight traffic for the Kyle line at the Strome Ferry railhead for some five years.
Location: Duirinish
Original line: Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway)
Photographer: Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)
Contact photographer: Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)
Image number: 31222
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