RAILSCOT | Book on failed plans for north-west rail link to be focus of Ullapool Book Festival [Press and Journal]

Book on failed plans for north-west rail link to be focus of Ullapool Book Festival [Press and Journal]

Date: 22/10/2020

A proposed north-west railway that never got off the ground will be the focus of an online talk as part of the Ullapool Book Festival, organisers have said.

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A proposed north-west railway that never got off the ground will be the focus of an online talk as part of the Ullapool Book Festival, organisers have said.

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Cover of 'A Quite Impossible Proposal: How not to Build a Railway' by Andrew Drummond, published by Birlinn on 24th September. (Image to accompany a book review by David Spaven.)
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