Five-tonne landslip closes Highland railway line [STV]
Date: 08/12/2011
A five-tonne landslide has closed a railway line in the Highlands.
Rocks, trees and water has covered part of the Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh line.
Network Rail and Scotrail were alerted the landslide, near Stromeferry village, at around 11am on Thursday.
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Stromeferry looking towards Inverness. On the 29th of October 2001 a mudslide closed the Kyle line making Strathcarron the temporary terminus until the line was remade east of Stromeferry. The hillside was cleared, made stable and a new formation built. A temporary level crossing was made at the east end of Stromeferry station (shown here) and an enormous mound of spoil was built up at the closed Howard Doris sidings site.
Location: Stromeferry
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
10/02/2002 Ewan Crawford
Location: Stromeferry
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
10/02/2002 Ewan Crawford
The 1203 Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness train restarts from Stromeferry on 29 September 2009.
Location: Stromeferry
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
29/09/2009 John Furnevel
Location: Stromeferry
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
29/09/2009 John Furnevel
The afternoon train from Kyle to Inverness pulls out of the once-imposing station at Stromeferry in the summer of 1983. Attached at the rear of the train is ex-GWR coach no 9004 which was used as an observation coach on the line during the summer in the early 1980s.
Location: Stromeferry
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
//1983 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)
Location: Stromeferry
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
//1983 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)
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