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The next phase of the roll-out of request-stop kiosk on the Far North Line in the Scottish Highlands will go live at five locations from Tuesday December 20.
(Permalink) Culrain Invershin Kildonan Kinbrace Rogart  Scotscalder: Final preparations are being made for the trial of a request-stop kiosk at Scotscalder on the Far North Line. The new equipment at Scotscalder will go live on trial from 15 August 2022.  Invershin: The remaining shell of Invershin station on 30 August 2007 looking north along the platform.  Kildonan: View north at Kildonan Station in June 2013 showing the current up and former down platform. Note the contrasting styles of the old and new waiting shelters. |
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It is a quaint anomaly of Scotlands rail network that has seen generations of passengers wave down train drivers at some of the countrys most remote and least frequented stations.
(Permalink) Altnabreac Culrain Dunrobin Castle Far North Line Hand Signals Invershin Kildonan Kinbrace Request Stop Request to stop kiosk Rogart Scotscalder |
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Work is underway at eight stations in the Scottish Highlands to install request to stop kiosks which will allow passengers to access the next planned service.
(Permalink) Altnabreac Culrain Dunrobin Castle Far North Line Hand Signals Invershin Kildonan Kinbrace Request Stop Request to stop kiosk Rogart Scotscalder  Scotland: Work is underway at eight stations in the Scottish Highlands to install 'request to stop kiosks' which will allow passengers to access the next planned service.
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Network Rail has completed the installation of 15 deer leaps along the railway boundary on the line between Kinbrace and Forsinard.
Deer leaps, which were first introduced on the line on an experimental basis back in 2019, offer all deer, but especially calves and juveniles, an escape route to prevent them from being hit by trains should they inadvertently stray onto, or become trapped on the line while crossing. (Permalink) Achentoul Estate Deer leaps Far North Line Forsinard Kinbrace  Kinbrace: Network Rail has completed the installation of 15 deer leaps along the railway boundary on the line between Kinbrace and Forsinard.
Deer leaps, which were first introduced on the line on an experimen ... |
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Drifting snow was continuing to cause major disruption to Highland railway lines on Tuesday - despite the arrival of milder air across the region.
(Permalink) Altnabreac Ardgay Brora Dunrobin Forsinard Georgemas Junction Golspie Helmsdale Huntly Insch Inverurie Keith Kennethmont Kildonan Kinbrace Lairg Rogart Scotscalder Signalling Snow Thurso Weather Wick |
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Huge snow drifts were continuing to cause major disruption on Highland railway lines on Monday.
(Permalink) Altnabreac Ardgay Brora Dunrobin Forsinard Georgemas Junction Golspie Helmsdale Huntly Insch Inverurie Keith Kennethmont Kildonan Kinbrace Lairg Rogart Scotscalder Signalling Snow Thurso Weather Wick |
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Hopes for a resumption of the regular freight traffic on the northernmost stretch of the rail network are being boosted with a trial run later this month. Very few commercial loads have been hauled either into or out of Caithness since a burst of activity in the 1990s when the freight arm of former freezer manufacturers Norfrost established a terminal at Georgemas Junction. Consignments of timber were also moved south by rail following the creation of a railside loading bay near Kinbrace in 2002.
[This article is not available on the Press and Journal website.] (Permalink) Georgemas Kinbrace |
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The Scottish Executive has awarded EWS with £1m for timber traffic. The grant will be broken up as follows;
- £158,000 to partly finance the re-development of the rail freight depot at Beattock for timber. EWS is seeking further funding. - £766,000 for a track access grant for timber sent by rail from Fort William, Crianlarich and Arrochar to Chirk in North Wales. - £143,000 for a track access grant for timber from Kinbrace in Sutherland to Inverness. The project is also supported by the Highland Council, the Forestry Commission, the Highland Rail Partnership and EWS. (Permalink) Arrochar and Tarbet Beattock Chirk Crianlarich EWS Forestry Commission Fort William Highland Council Highland Rail Partnership Inverness Kinbrace Timber West Highland Lines |
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