Date: 17/01/2012

ScotRail is to provide an additional early morning service to ensure that
Plockton High pupils can get to school - free of charge - while the
Stromeferry bypass remains closed.

From Monday 23 January, an 06.20 Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh service will
transport the children to Plockton before 09.00. Other passengers can also
buy tickets for the service.

In order to accommodate the additional service, the 07.26 Elgin-Inverness
will be replaced by a bus. A bus will also operate the 09.00
Inverness-Kyle, connecting into a train at Achnasheen.

Jerry Farquharson, ScotRail^s director of business planning, said: ^We^ve
worked closely with Highland Council and HITRANS to put this plan in place.

^It means that pupils will be able to get to school over the coming weeks
with as little disruption as possible - and without incurring any extra
travel costs.^

Dr Michael Foxley, Highland Council leader said: ^This is great news.
ScotRail^s cooperation is much appreciated, particularly as the children
will get to travel for free.^

It is expected that the service will be in place for between four and six
weeks.

Related images

Two stops out from its final destination, the 1101 Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh calls at Plockton on 29 September 2009. Those gathered under the canopy in the far corner of the platform are not passengers but students from the nearby Plockton High School on their lunch break. No, I've absolutely no idea...
Location: Plockton
Company: Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway)
29/10/2009 John Furnevel

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

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)

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