Date: 27/12/2021

Loading facility at Altnabreac could be model for others across Scotland, states report. A plan to take 9000 tonnes of timber off Caithness roads and on to the rail network has been approved by Highland Council. It granted planning permission to Caledonia Forest Land Investment Ltd to construct a rail-side timber loading facility on land near Altnabreac station. The company, which has a number of plantations in the north, is working on the venture with HiTrans and Scottish Woodlands.

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Loading facility at Altnabreac could be model for others across Scotland, states report.

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Altnabreac in its splendid isolation. Looking south towards Forsinard in 1994. The water tank still exists behind the photographer.
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
//1994 Ewan Crawford

A water column still stands defiantly at Altnabreac in the summer of 1971, long after the end of steam.
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
//1971 David Spaven

Hard to believe this is the same viewpoint as the shot taken 41 years ago see image [[29053]]. A 'Friends of the Far North Line' outing is about to escape the Altnabreac midges by jumping on the 13.55 departure for Thurso and Wick on 26th August 2015. In the left foreground is former Invergordon signalman Iain Macdonald (50 years’ service on the railway), on the far right is Mike Lunan (formerly Chair of the Rail Passengers Committee Scotland), while the man in the red anorak is leading Highland rail activist Richard Ardern.
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
26/08/2015 David Spaven

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