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Inverness And Ross-shire Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking northbound over the closed Edderton station. Distillery behind.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/14.jpg "Edderton")
![Looking south at the former Evanton station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/29.jpg "Evanton")
![Looking south west at the closed Foulis station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/37.jpg "Foulis")
![Looking north over the Glenmorangie Distillery and pond.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/42.jpg "Glenmorangie Distillery")
![Looking north at the closed Lentran station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/68.jpg "Lentran")
![Looking west over the closed Meikle Ferry station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/76.jpg "Meikle Ferry")
![Looking east at the closed Mid Fearn Halt.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/78.jpg "Mid Fearn")
![The former Nigg station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/91.jpg "Nigg")
![Looking west at the former Bunchrew station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/618.jpg "Bunchrew")
![Looking north at the line near the former Clunes station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/619.jpg "Clunes")
![Looking west at the disused Conon station platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/620.jpg "Conon")
![Disused rails in Invergordon harbour. View looks east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/622.jpg "Invergordon")
![View looking west over the former Invergordon Smelter sidings.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/623.jpg "Invergordon")
![Looking south at Muir of Ord station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/624.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Looking west at the new Ness Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/625.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Looking north at Dingwall station, class 37 hauled passenger train heading south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/626.jpg "Dingwall")
![Looking west at the collapsed Ness Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/627.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Dingwall Junction viewed from the south. Sprinter train at Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/650.jpg "Dingwall Junction")
![Class 37 arrives at Dingwall with a Wick/Thurso train in August 1982.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/6000/6329.jpg "Dingwall")
![Tain, viewed from the north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7028.jpg "Tain")
![Safeway train running east, east of Clunes.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7084.jpg "Clunes")
![Approaching Muir of Ord from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7089.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Eastbound Safeway train at Clunes. Ben Wyvis in background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7325.jpg "Clunes")
![Southbound train in the heavy frost at Muir of Ord.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7503.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Northbound at Fearn.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7505.jpg "Fearn")
![Southbound oil empties from Lairg pause at Muir of Ord for northbound passenger train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7506.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The shed at Muir of Ord used when the Ness Viaduct in Inverness washed away. The shed has now been removed. It came from Troon and was built on the site of the old goods shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7507.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Southbound over the skew-arch viaduct at Conon Bridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7508.jpg "Conon Bridge Viaduct")
![Southbound in the early morning at Dingwall.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7509.jpg "Dingwall")
![Replacement work on the west side of the collapsed Ness Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8745.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Replacement work on the east side of the collapsed Ness Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8746.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Approaching Conon Bridge from Dingwall.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8898.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![Kyle of Lochalsh service at Muir of Ord.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/11000/11830.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![A northbound train powers away from Clachnaharry swing bridge shortly after leaving Inverness in the early 1970s.<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/29000/29681.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A northbound train from Inverness snakes through Clachnaharry village in the late 1960s.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/31000/31366.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A Class 40 eases the regular Muir of Ord to Doncaster empty grain train across the Caledonian Canal at Clachnaharry in the 1970s. This was one of the first dedicated trainload (as opposed to mixed freight) workings in the Highlands - beginning in the mid-1960s - with barley from the East of England aggregated into a full train at Doncaster, working up the ECML to Aberdeen. North of Aberdeen, the alternate destinations were the Burghead maltings private siding and a rail-connected silo at Muir of Ord feeding the maltings on the edge of the village. [See image 24214]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/36000/36742.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Clachnaharry swing bridge eases to the north to allow a vessel to proceed towards the end of the Caledonian Canal.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/38000/38267.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A Class 24 shunts Invergordon goods yard in the mid 1970s.<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/39000/39989.jpg "Invergordon")
![This is a scan from a rather battered postcard showing 14412 <I>Ben Avon</I> at Dingwall shed. The locomotive shed was to the south of the station, on the west side of the line, close to the goods shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection //]](/images/45000/45441.jpg "Dingwall")
![A train leaving Dingwall heading for Kyle of Lochalsh, thought to have been taken in the early 1970s. [Ref query 161] <br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/57000/57240.jpg "Dingwall")
![C.R. 4.4.0 54470 on Black Isle train. 5P 4.6.0 45460 on Wick train. Muir of Ord 1950.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950]](/images/9000/9769.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![C.R. 4.4.0 54470 drawing out of up island platform with Black Isle empties. Muir of Ord Junction.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950]](/images/9000/9770.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![5P 4.6.0 45460 on Wick train. Muir of Ord Junction.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950]](/images/9000/9771.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![5P 4.6.0 on Tain-Inverness local (45477). Muir of Ord Junction.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950]](/images/9000/9772.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Dingwall station. CR 0.6.0 57597 on Skye train. 5P 4.6.0 44961 on Wick train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 03/07/1950]](/images/9000/9212.jpg "Dingwall")
![C.R. 0.4.4T 55199 at Dingwall sheds.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1950]](/images/9000/9213.jpg "Dingwall")
![The 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour leaves the Fortrose branch at Muir of Ord rejoining the Thuro and Wick to Inverness mainline. <br><br>[WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 14/06/1960]](/images/40000/40604.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Black 5 no 45123 stands at the head of a train at the north end of Dingwall station in 1962.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1962]](/images/36000/36533.jpg "Dingwall")
![A train recently arrived from Kyle behind a type 2 stands at Dingwall in 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1963]](/images/36000/36449.jpg "Dingwall")
![Hopper wagons stand alongside Invergordon Distillery in 1963.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1963]](/images/38000/38051.jpg "Invergordon")
![No, not the land of the Rising Sun, just Clachnaharry. The distant Ben Wyvis is coated in early snow as D5344 edges across the Caledonian Canal swing bridge on a crisp autumn afternoon in 1966.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1966]](/images/32000/32711.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The morning train for the far north leaving Dingwall behind a type 2 in August 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1966]](/images/23000/23262.jpg "Dingwall")
![A BRCW Type 2 shunts the harbour line at Invergordon in August 1966, having crossed the main road. Wagons stand on the main line in the background.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1966]](/images/24000/24086.jpg "Invergordon")
![The morning train for Wick runs into Dingwall in August 1966. Note the Royal Mail coach immediately behind the locomotive and the loop platform on the left still operational at that time.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1966]](/images/26000/26966.jpg "Dingwall")
![The morning train for Kyle of Lochalsh pulls away from Dingwall in August 1966.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1966]](/images/28000/28947.jpg "Dingwall")
![The Kyle train leaves Dingwall in August 1966 with the observation car framed by the splitting starter.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1966]](/images/31000/31202.jpg "Dingwall")
![A class 26 with a freight at Tain in 1968. View is south-east with the old locomotive shed in the background. <br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/34000/34575.jpg "Tain")
![An Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh train runs into Dingwall station in 1970. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1970]](/images/22000/22111.jpg "Dingwall")
![An Inverness-bound freight passes through the open level crossing at Bunchrew in 1970. Bunchrew was one of some 16 wayside stations on the Far North Line whose closure (in June 1960) pre-dated the Beeching era. This is also the location where a Network Rail employee had a narrow escape when his car collided with a train in May 2008 (see news items).<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1970]](/images/26000/26432.jpg "Bunchrew")
![A train for the far north rolls into Dingwall station on a bright but hazy November morning in 1970 behind a pair of Inverness-based Type 2 locomotives. Note the trolley load of milk churns standing on the platform.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1970]](/images/37000/37074.jpg "Dingwall")
![The locomotive of an early morning train for Kyle of Lochalsh collects a van from the Strathpeffer bay at Dingwall in November 1970.<br><br>[Colin Miller /11/1970]](/images/23000/23507.jpg "Dingwall")
![Scene in the yard at Dingwall in the spring of 1971 as a Class 26 collects a milk van for attachment to the mid-morning Inverness-Kyle train. On Mondays to Fridays, the van was picked up by the early-morning daily freight from Inverness to Kyle, which in latter years became a mixed passenger, parcels and freight operation.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1971]](/images/36000/36198.jpg "Dingwall")
![The newly completed freight sidings and British Aluminium smelter at Invergordon in 1971. At its peak the smelter generated traffic for three trains daily, bringing in butane and taking out aluminium blocks, plus alumina for the Fort William smelter - won by rail despite requiring a 330-mile haul compared to the direct road distance of less than 100 miles!<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1971]](/images/40000/40247.jpg "Invergordon BAC")
![A pair of Type 2 diesels with the <I>'Hebridean Express'</I> charter train returning from Kyle of Lochalsh on 7th September 1971. The special is seen here in the late afternoon near Bunchrew on its way back to Inverness.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 07/09/1971]](/images/34000/34221.jpg "Bunchrew")
![An Inverness-bound train heading south in the summer of 1972 photographed shortly after passing through Beauly.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1972]](/images/42000/42443.jpg "Beauly Viaduct")
![Scene at Bonar Bridge station in August 1972. After carrying the name for 113 years the station was renamed Ardgay 5 years later in 1977.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1972]](/images/26000/26878.jpg "Bonar Bridge")
![The morning train for Kyle of Lochalsh shortly after arrival at Dingwall in August 1972 - note the Royal Mail van waiting on the platform and the collection of milk churns standing beyond. Notice also that the loop platform line has been lifted by this time. [See image 26966]<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1972]](/images/27000/27026.jpg "Dingwall")
![The low evening sun provides no hiding place for the photographer's silhouette as the 17.00 Inverness-Wick/Thurso powers away from Clachnaharry swing bridge in October 1972.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /10/1972]](/images/40000/40680.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![No, not the long-haul express freight to the Midland Region which the headcode might imply, but rather the shorter than usual 16.10 Invergordon-Inverness trip freight heading south on 24th October 1972. Standing out in the consist are four wagons of aluminium blocks from the smelter, four alumina hoppers for Fort William via Cadder Yard (330 miles!), plus two Speedfreight containers and two tank containers from the Invergordon Distillery. <br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 24/10/1972]](/images/28000/28878.jpg "Invergordon")
![The passenger station may have been deserted but Fearn's freight sidings were awash with traffic - seed potatoes and offshore oil pipes - on 24th October 1972.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 24/10/1972]](/images/30000/30914.jpg "Fearn")
![The daily Lairg-Inverness trip freight, hauled by a Class 24, approaches the site of the soon to be re-opened Alness station on 24th October 1972.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 24/10/1972]](/images/37000/37165.jpg "Alness")
![Derby Type 2 No D5125 eases southbound cement empties across the Caledonian Canal swing bridge at Clachnaharry in 1973. Clachnaharry is now the only signal box north of Inverness.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/26000/26868.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Looking towards the main line from the harbour branch at Invergordon in the summer of 1973 as a class 24 shunts the goods yard.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/27000/27324.jpg "Invergordon")
![A southbound freight heads out of Invergordon in the summer of 1973. In the right background is one of the ubiquitous NCL (National Carriers) vans which distributed parcels and sundries traffic by road from six stations north of Inverness - Dingwall, Kyle, Invergordon, Brora, Wick and Thurso.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/27000/27648.jpg "Invergordon")
![Until the 1982 displacement of Class 26s by Class 37s (the Class 24s having left Inverness in 1975), the only other locos seen regularly north of Muir of Ord were the 1,000 horse power Class 20s, hauling oil trains from Bowling (on the Clyde) to Invergordon Distillery. Here, one of the class accelerates a southbound empty tank train out of Invergordon loop in the summer of 1973.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/30000/30723.jpg "Invergordon")
![With a Class 26 in charge, aluminium blocks from the Invergordon smelter head south through Dingwall in the summer of 1973. <br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/32000/32031.jpg "Dingwall")
![View across the harbour at Inverness in early 1973, with a train from the north slowing across the old Ness Bridge as it approaches its destination.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/32000/32455.jpg "Inverness")
![Ready for the road. The driver of an Inverness-bound freight gets set to depart from Invergordon goods yard in the summer of 1973.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/32000/32790.jpg "Invergordon")
![The shunting team returning along the harbour branch to Invergordon goods yard in the summer of 1973, including (on the right) the proverbial 'man with the red flag' - to take the train across the main road through Invergordon.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/35000/35865.jpg "Invergordon")
![Kyle and Inverness loco drivers effect a quick swop of workings in this typical (but perhaps not officially approved) scene at Muir of Ord in early 1973.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/36000/36924.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The daily Far North freight from wick and Thurso to Inverness powers through Invergordon in the summer of 1973. The Invergordon Harbour branch (for coal traffic) trails off to the right. The photographer (a temporary BR employee during student holidays) had no head for heights, but managed to steel himself to climb a signal gantry to get the best possible view.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/37000/37013.jpg "Invergordon")
![A Class 24 without a headcode panel - an unusual sight in the Highlands - shunts Invergordon Goods Yard in summer 1973. The harbour branch trails off to the right.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/39000/39445.jpg "Invergordon")
![Photograph taken from Invergordon goods shed in summer 1973. A southbound freight has collected sundries vans and is preparing to head off to Inverness.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/40000/40889.jpg "Invergordon")
![A Class 24 shunts Invergordon goods yard in summer 1973. This sub-class with no headcode panel was an unusual sight in the Highlands. At the time Invergordon boasted an Area Manager's office controlling extensive freight business from the nearby aluminium smelter and North Sea oil-related traffic as well as domestic coal, whisky, barley, malt, steel and potatoes - up to three local freight trips between Inverness and Invergordon daily.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/42000/42133.jpg "Invergordon")
![A local freight from Inverness propels wagons back into Alness sidings in May 1973. Just behind the loco is a demountable tank container, almost certainly destined for the private siding at Invergordon grain distillery. [See image 29585]<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven /05/1973]](/images/29000/29586.jpg "Alness")
![The official re-opening train (the normal mid-morning Inverness-Wick service) pulls into Alness station in May 1973. The man with the camera is Adrian Varwell, local representative of the Scottish Association for Public Transport, who played a big part in the re-opening campaign.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 07/05/1973]](/images/26000/26224.jpg "Alness")
![Bunting in evidence as a Class 24-hauled train for Inverness calls at Alness on the first day of service following the station's re-opening in May 1973. Sadly, the attractive Highland Railway station building has since been demolished.<br><br>[David Spaven 07/05/1973]](/images/31000/31703.jpg "Alness")
![<I>Here comes the train... and only 13 years late!</I> An expectant crowd spots the class 24-hauled service from Inverness as it approaches Alness for the official reopening ceremony on 7 May 1973. The station had closed in 1960 when pre-Beeching cuts eliminated a swathe of wayside stations on the Far North line.<br><br>[David Spaven 07/05/1973]](/images/36000/36356.jpg "Alness")
![Cement coated pipes wait to head south as a northbound passenger train pulls into Invergordon in 1974. The photographer - working as a 'Senior Railman' for BR at Invergordon during his student holidays - was in the habit of travelling home to Inverness in the rear cab of the Friday pipe train. One particular Friday afternoon, having lost track of time in his nearby lodgings, there was a rap on the door, and there stood the Invergordon signalman who announced.. <I> ...better hurry up to the station - the pipe train's waiting for you!</I><br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/26000/26273.jpg "Invergordon")
!['How far apart are these supposed to be?' Tain PW Inspector at Fearn Station, summer 1974.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/26000/26707.jpg "Fearn")
![A striking example of advertising on rail. A demountable tank container for the local grain distillery sidings sits in Invergordon goods yard in 1974.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/26000/26782.jpg "Invergordon")
![The Tain signalman (Malcolm), exchanges tokens with the Secondman of a southbound Inspection Saloon special in the summer of 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/29000/29569.jpg "Tain")
![Gauging the track at Fearn in the summer of 1974 - the redundant Down platform can be seen to the right, and the connection from the goods yard trailing in from the left in the distance. [With thanks to Messrs Smith, Hutton, Todd and Ehrsam].<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/30000/30222.jpg "Fearn")
![The way it used to be. Offloading sacks of malt from rail vans at Tain good yard in 1974, ready for delivery by NCL lorry to Glenmorangie distillery. The photographer - who was working on the railway in his student holidays - will not forget the ensuing trip to the distillery to help the lorry driver offload the malt. Job completed, the two were ushered into the bowels of the distillery, an official unlocked a tall cupboard and then ceremoniously poured each of them an exceedingly large dram. This was the generous practice afforded to all delivery men in those distant days!<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/32000/32140.jpg "Tain")
![The ground frame at Alness in 1974, showing the goods yard sidings (still open) and the closed Dalmore distillery siding.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/32000/32528.jpg "Alness")
![A non-stop freight from the north exchanges tokens at speed with the Invergordon signalman in early 1974. With Inverness loco drivers going by nicknames such as 'The Cowboy' and 'The Bandit', manual exchange of tokens could be a hair-raising experience, as the photographer remembers only too well from his time as a temporary BR employee doing (unofficial) signalling duties!<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/33000/33768.jpg "Invergordon")
![The daily mixed freight / parcels train from Inverness to Wick heads north from Tain in the summer of 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/34000/34756.jpg "Tain")
![In 1974, rail was still hanging on to a worthwhile share of the whisky-related transport market within Scotland, either via modernised railheads serving wider catchments or directly to surviving private sidings at a few of the biggest distilleries and bottling plants. Virtually the whole portfolio of what rail could offer at that time is seen here in Invergordon goods yard - a (grubby) hopper wagon which had brought grain to the nearby distillery sidings and would return south with waste product used for animal feed; an equally tarnished early-generation container for southbound casks of whisky; and, in the distance, a splendidly clean 'Cutty Sark' tank container for bulk spirit.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/35000/35802.jpg "Invergordon")
![Looking north east towards Fearn station in the summer of 1974, with the line into the goods yard running off to the right. Photograph taken from the rear of an evening Far North Line train heading for Inverness.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/36000/36342.jpg "Fearn")
![The photographer takes a break from his job as Senior Railman at Tain in 1974 to capture this early morning scene showing newspapers being offloaded from the 06.15 Inverness-Wick/Thurso train.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/36000/36700.jpg "Tain")
![View south from an up train standing at Dingwall in the summer of 1974. The appearance of 3 trains is thought to have been caused by the late running southbound service. [With thanks to all who responded to this query]. <br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37200.jpg "Dingwall")
![A northbound freight hammers through Fearn in summer 1974. While working as a 'Senior Railman' for the BR Area Manager Invergordon in his student holidays, the photographer spent one day deputizing for the usual BR employee at Fearn. Not a ticket was sold - so no surprise that Fearn is now an unstaffed halt!<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37375.jpg "Fearn")
![Looking through the remains of the redundant station footbridge at Fearn as a Class 26 hauled northbound freight approaches in the summer of 1974. [With thanks to all who responded to this query]<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37546.jpg "Fearn")
![The bulk discharge facility at the end of the long private siding that ran from Alness station to Dalmore distillery, seen here in 1974, by which time the siding had already been closed. The old signal box in the background is the relocated Alness box, with the station sidings by this time being controlled by a ground frame.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/39000/39001.jpg "Dalmore Distillery Siding")
![The overgrown remains of the long siding that once ran between Alness and Dalmore distillery, photographed on a summer evening in 1974. [See image 39001]<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/40000/40728.jpg "Alness")
![The ground frame and private siding for the MK Shand pipe coating works north of Invergordon seen in summer 1974. This location generated substantial freight revenue for BR over 10 or more years, with long-haul trainloads of pipes returning south after cement coating.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1974]](/images/42000/42186.jpg "Invergordon")
![Hillman Imps to the fore on a sunny morning in May 1974 as the Tain signalman (Malcolm), delivers the token for the section to Bonar Bridge to the driver of the Class 24 hauling the daily Inverness-Wick freight.<br><br>[David Spaven /05/1974]](/images/34000/34616.jpg "Tain")
![A class 24 locomotive with a short Kyle-Inverness train skirts the south shore of the Beauly Firth between Lentran and Bunchrew as it nears its destination in 1975.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1975]](/images/27000/27079.jpg "Bunchrew")
![26043 photographed at Helmsdale in 1975. Originally BRCW Type 2 no D5343 this locomotive has since been preserved and is undergoing restoration on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1975]](/images/32000/32060.jpg "Helmsdale")
![A train from the north slows across the old Ness Bridge in Inverness in 1977.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/26000/26693.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Not a typical locomotive at Clachnaharry in 1977. A Class 27 (rather than the usual Class 24 or 26) slows an Inverness-bound freight towards the Caledonian Canal swing bridge.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/29000/29215.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![When Muir of Ord station re-opened in 1976, having been closed for 16 years, it had a station building, a parcels service …and steam heating, as shown in this early 1977 shot. Nowadays it has a bus shelter of course! [See image 5856]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/35000/35888.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![View north along Lower Kessock Street in the Merkinch district of Inverness in 1977 as a class 26 is about to cross with a train from the north. Preparatory work in connection with the replacement of the bridge deck is taking place in the background. [With thanks to all who responded to this query]<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/36000/36175.jpg "Inverness")
![View from a passing train crossing Clachnaharry swing bridge. Early 1970s. The signal appears to be for canal traffic. (The vessel in the background is the Eilean Dubh, one of the Kessock ferries, at that time held in reserve. With thanks to Colin Miller).<br><br>[Bill Roberton //197X]](/images/56000/56378.jpg "Clachnaharry Swing Bridge")
![A northbound train hauled by 26034 slows for the token exchange at Clachnaharry in the spring of 1980.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1980]](/images/27000/27815.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![An odd wagon to find at the MK Shand pipe-coating works at Invergordon in 1980. This was for many years a major source of revenue for BR, with trains of 20 wagons and more arriving regularly for coating and then returning south in similar quantities.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1980]](/images/29000/29770.jpg "Invergordon")
![A Wick/Thurso-Inverness train accelerates away from Clachnaharry in the summer of 1980. Note the <I>'mini-buffet'</I> coach (third from the engine), which offered Britain's shortest journey in a refreshment car at one third of a mile - between Invershin and Culrain stations.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1980]](/images/33000/33644.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A Class 40-hauled Inverness-bound freight accelerates ways from Clachnaharry swing bridge in early 1981.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1981]](/images/26000/26551.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Dingwall in August 1982.The engine shed and other railway buildings beneath the footbridge on the right have been demolished and replaced by flats.<br><br>[John Gray /08/1982]](/images/9000/9150.jpg "Dingwall")
![5025 waits to get the road for Kyle.<br><br>[John Robin /09/1982]](/images/6000/6903.jpg "Dingwall")
![Thurso + Wick train ready to go. Platform 5 at Inverness. 37261 before naming.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1983]](/images/12000/12254.jpg "Inverness")
![Route not recommended! Clachnaharry swing bridge over the Caledonian Canal under repair in the summer of 1983.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1983]](/images/33000/33560.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Signalman exchanges tablet at Clachnaharry Swing Bridge over The Caledonian Canal.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1983]](/images/10000/10942.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Each crossing point on the old HR had two cabins. This is the south box at Dingwall which was removed when RETB signalling replaced all the cabins north of Inverness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1983]](/images/11000/11138.jpg "Dingwall")
![37035 with a southbound train at Muir of Ord in 1985. The now demolished station building stands in the left background, with part of the former grain transhipment facilities on the right [see image 16157].<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/36000/36667.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Kyle bound 37414 photographed north of Dingwall in 1985. [Ref query 7585]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection //1985]](/images/48000/48391.jpg "Dingwall")
![Station building on the down platform at Muir of Ord in 1985, now demolished.<br><br>[David Panton 05/08/1985]](/images/20000/20466.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![One of the few occasions on which coal moved south on the Far North Line. Some of the 13 HEA hopper wagons of imported coal - a contract secured to rail by the photographer's son as BR Speedlink Coal manager for Scotland - conveyed on a southbound freight from Invergordon on 12th February 1986 are seen here on the original Ness Bridge in Inverness.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 12/02/1986]](/images/40000/40825.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![37417 photographed with a train at Lentran (closed June 1960) on a cold day in March 1986.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /03/1986]](/images/34000/34859.jpg "Lentran")
![Muir of Ord signal box in August 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1987]](/images/32000/32333.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The ticket office at Tain in September 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /09/1987]](/images/33000/33194.jpg "Tain")
![Alness viewed from a southbound train. Alness once had three platforms and a fine station building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/11000/11056.jpg "Alness")
![Looking from Muir of Ord station to the closed North Signal Box. Only the extra disused platform face betrays that the there was once a yard here and the Fortrose branch curved off to the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/58000/58370.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The signal box at Clachnaharry on 28 March 1988.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/1988]](/images/24000/24672.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The signal box at Clachnaharry in March 1988. View west towards Beauly.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/1988]](/images/24000/24674.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Fishing boat heading south along the Caledonian Canal past Clachnaharry swing bridge.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/1988]](/images/56000/56431.jpg "Clachnaharry Swing Bridge")
![Looking east to the swing bridge and signalbox, Clachnaharry, with the Kessock Bridge in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/1988]](/images/56000/56635.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Rose Street cabin, Inverness. This controlled the 3 northern platforms and both main lines along The Rose Street Curve. An up loop and the north entry to the TMD were also operated from here. It closed when modernisation was implimented.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/1988]](/images/10000/10742.jpg "Inverness")
![Thurso train crossing Ness Viaduct in 1988. Early 1989 this bridge was washed away.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/1988]](/images/10000/10445.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Converted officers coach used as an observation car at the rear of the morning train to Kyle. RSAS club behind wall, anyone for a pint?<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/12000/12264.jpg "Inverness")
![37416 on shed at Muir of Ord. Not long after the Ness Viaduct came down.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16137.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![A class 37 undergoing some repairs in the temporary running shed at Muir of Ord in 1989. The coaches on the left and six 37/4s were unable to return to Inverness with the Ness Viaduct collapsed. Note the semi derelict semaphore signals.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16138.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Muir of Ord station building stood on the northbound platform. Seen here in 1989 before the bulldozers moved in.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16147.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Meeting of two 37 hauled trains. The DMU on the left was converted to form an observation car. At the time Dingwall was a terminus.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16153.jpg "Dingwall")
![Another day, another ECS 37 hauled train enters Dingwall. The few loco hauled trains north of Inverness at the time resulted in the same train on different days.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16156.jpg "Dingwall")
![Abandoned grain silo sidings at Muir of Ord looking north 1n 1989. Note Muir of Ord North signalbox in the left background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16157.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Looking south at Ardgay showing the abolished Ardgay South signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16319.jpg "Ardgay")
![View looking north of Tain goods yard when in use as a PW depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16321.jpg "Tain")
![Minibus takes passengers from Muir of Ord to Dingwall to connect with a train. Passengers from Inverness took a different bus. This is while the Ness Viaduct was being replaced and the goods yard here in use as a depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16322.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Beauly before re-opening. The opportunity to maintain the line was taken when the Ness Viaduct was being replaced.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16323.jpg "Beauly")
![The 1864 station at Fearn, seen in January 1989 looking north towards the B9165 road bridge.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /01/1989]](/images/45000/45062.jpg "Fearn")
![37416 with the train to Kyle of Lochalsh under the roadbridge at Dingwall.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8889.jpg "Dingwall")
![Looking south at Dingwall.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8890.jpg "Dingwall")
![In Feb 1989 a great flood dispatched the main masonary of the Ness viaduct into the river Ness. Rails can be seen hanging snow covered. <br><br>[Brian Forbes /02/1989]](/images/12000/12244.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![View south from the footbridge at Dingwall on 31 March 1989. 37417 <I>Highland Region</I> is receiving attention in the former goods yard while a Mk1 coach and 156 unit are stabled beyond. Taken during the isolated operation of the Far North line due to collapse of the Ness Viaduct.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/1989]](/images/43000/43349.jpg "Dingwall")
![Looking south over Muir of Ord yard on 31 March 1989 with the temporary locomotive shed under construction in the background. This facility was provided to service the trains isolated by the Ness Viaduct collapse.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/1989]](/images/59000/59529.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Inverness - Wick/Thurso service at Dingwall on 15 August 1989 looking north.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/12000/12626.jpg "Dingwall")
![Service to the far north preparing to leave Dingwall on 15 August 1989.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/12000/12657.jpg "Dingwall")
![View south from Dingwall station on 15 August 1989.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/12000/12885.jpg "Dingwall")
![Arrival from the north pulls up at Dingwall on 15 August 1989, seen from the station footbridge.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/17000/17039.jpg "Dingwall")
![EE Type 3 37418, stranded by the Ness Viaduct collapse, sits outside the temporary Muir of Ord shed in 1990. After a long mainline career this loco went into preservation on the East Lancashire Railway.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/59000/59531.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Looking north over Muir of Ord goods yard in 1990 with the temporary running shed on the left on the site of the goods shed. Looks like the Ness Viaduct collapse has done for the grain traffic. The former semaphore signals remained for a while after they became redundant.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/59000/59555.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The view towards Inverness from Clachnaharry signalbox in July of 1991.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/30000/30870.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Signalwoman and son at Clachnaharry signal box in July 1991.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/32000/32033.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![37408 <I>Loch Rannoch</I> seen shortly after the start of its journey from Inverness in the summer of 1991. The train is about to cross Clachnaharry Swing Bridge on a service to the Far North.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/32000/32836.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A train for the far north approaching Clachnaharry shortly after leaving Inverness in July 1991.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/35000/35561.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![View from Clachnaharry signal box in July 1991.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/37000/37606.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![37408 <I>Loch Rannoch</I> crossing Clachnaharry Swing Bridge in July 1991 with a service to Wick and Thurso.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 11/07/1991]](/images/19000/19896.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![37404 <I>Ben Cruachan</I> leaves Dingwall on 12 May 1993 with the 1914hrs train to Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/05/1993]](/images/26000/26188.jpg "Dingwall")
![The 19.14 train to Kyle of Lochalsh leaves Dingwall behind a class 37 on 12 May 1993. Note the Kyle Line coaching stock in use at the time.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/05/1993]](/images/26000/26705.jpg "Dingwall")
![An unidentified class 37 passes a class 156 DMU at Dingwall on 22 September 1993.<br><br>[Ken Browne 22/09/1993]](/images/25000/25101.jpg "Dingwall")
![Tain station looking west at the main building from the former turntable's pit in 1994. The pit is a reminder of the local service from Inverness. Tain Shed was located south of the station on the east side of the line. This was the third turntable; the first was on approach to the original single road shed, the second was located in the goods yard to the north of the station (the shed was replaced with a two road version) and the third was on the east side of the station as seen here (60 ft).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/12/1994]](/images/60000/60004.jpg "Tain")
![A class 37-hauled freight special conveying flagstone paving from Georgemas Junction to Kyle of Lochalsh drifts through the platforms of Tain station in 1997. [See image 38387]<br><br>[David Spaven Collection //1997]](/images/36000/36320.jpg "Tain")
![37520 waits for Royal Scotsman passengers to return from a distillery visit before heading south from Tain on 21 July 2000.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
21/07/2000]](/images/54000/54169.jpg "Tain")
![The extensive former goods facilities at Tain, once busy with distillery traffic. View north from the end of the down platform in June 2001. [See image 32140].<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/06/2001]](/images/3000/3279.jpg "Tain")
![Platform view south through Tain station on 16 June 2001. To the right of the main station building is the entrance to the former goods yard [see image 3279].<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/06/2001]](/images/58000/58007.jpg "Tain")
![Looking north through Ardgay station on 14 September 2001.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/09/2001]](/images/0/621.jpg "Ardgay")
![66095 with oil empties from Lairg waits for the northbound first service of the day at Muir of Ord.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /02/2002]](/images/18000/18840.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The mini-platform at Beauly in November 2003. The original 1862 station building and fenced off up platform can be seen on the left. The old station closed to passengers in June 1960 but reopened in April 2002 using the new short platform arrangement. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/11/2003]](/images/1000/1224.jpg "Beauly")
![A Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness train approaching Beauly from the north in November 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/11/2003]](/images/56000/56799.jpg "Beauly")
![Dingwall Station frontage in November 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/1000/1949.jpg "Dingwall")
![A chilly Dingwall station looking south on a November morning in 2003. The area beyond the abandoned platform (left) on the east side of the station is in danger of becoming a rubbish dump.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/2000/2814.jpg "Dingwall")
![Morning train from Kyle to Inverness arriving at Muir of Ord in November 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/3000/3267.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Supervision of passengers leaving via <I>the designated door</I> of an Inverness - Wick service during the stop at the Beauly mini-platform in November 2003. <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/3000/3662.jpg "Beauly")
![On a bright autumn morning in Nov 2003 a Wick/Thurso service pulls into Muir of Ord. The shed used when the line was cut at Inverness following the bridge collapse is in the left background [see image 16138] and the abandoned east side platform, used at one time by Fortrose branch trains is nearest the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/5000/5856.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![A Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness train leaving Beauly in 2003, showing part of the original station building on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/6000/6088.jpg "Beauly")
![Trains crossing at Dingwall station in November 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/6000/6095.jpg "Dingwall")
![The early morning train for Inverness off the Far North Line crossing the river at Conon Bridge on 23 November 2003 on the way to its next stop at Muir of Ord.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/6000/6157.jpg "Conon Bridge Viaduct")
![The northern approach to Beauly on a chilly morning in the Autumn of 2003, with a 158 off the Kyle line slowing to call at the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2003]](/images/27000/27356.jpg "Beauly")
![The former Inverness & Ross-shire 1862 station at Bunchrew looking east towards Inverness over the open level crossing in November 2003. The station was closed to passengers in June 1960.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/11/2003]](/images/6000/6089.jpg "Bunchrew")
![Dead slow over the swing bridge at Clachnaharry. Rain coming ...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2004]](/images/9000/9056.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The site of the former Clunes station looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/07/2004]](/images/28000/28225.jpg "Clunes")
![A Kyle bound service passing over Clachnaharry Swing Bridge in July 2004. Moments later the heavens opened.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/07/2004]](/images/24000/24673.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A ScotRail service for Inverness runs south from Mid Fearn.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/5000/5898.jpg "Mid Fearn")
![Tain, which has recently been renovated (Oct 2005) and CCTV installed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/5000/5907.jpg "Tain")
![A Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness train approaching Dingwall Junction in 2005. In the foreground is Dingwall Canal North level crossing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/16000/16449.jpg "Dingwall Junction")
![About to pass the open Clachnaharry swing bridge, with the signal box in the background, in a boat on the Caledonian Canal on 23 September 2005.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 25/09/2005]](/images/33000/33989.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Tain station building following recent rennovation work.<br><br>[John Morton /07/2006]](/images/10000/10261.jpg "Tain")
![Tain station looking south to Inverness.<br><br>[John Morton /07/2006]](/images/10000/10262.jpg "Tain")
![Tain station building.<br><br>[John Morton /07/2006]](/images/10000/10263.jpg "Tain")
![Tain station looking south showing the rennovated station building and new waiting shelter.<br><br>[John Morton /07/2006]](/images/10000/10264.jpg "Tain")
![Tain looking south to Inverness. The locomotive shed was to the south of the station.<br><br>[John Morton /07/2006]](/images/10000/10265.jpg "Tain")
![Ardgay at dusk on a foggy evening.The main building is a private house. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11618.jpg "Ardgay")
![What is left of the goods yard at Ardgay. Overgrown platforms and rusty sidings. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11619.jpg "Ardgay")
![Beauly old station. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11620.jpg "Beauly")
![Beauly new station. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11621.jpg "Beauly")
![A stone thistle atop a gable of Beauly old station. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11622.jpg "Beauly")
![Dingwall looking north. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11633.jpg "Dingwall")
![Dingwall looking south.The blue portacabin is used by Network Rail. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11634.jpg "Dingwall")
![Dingwall was built in......<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11635.jpg "Dingwall")
![Muir of Ord, foggy day, looking south. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11642.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Muir of Ord looking north. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11643.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Tain station forecourt 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11649.jpg "Tain")
![Tain, entrance to what was once the goods yard. Now with rusty sidings and lots of weeds. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11650.jpg "Tain")
![Tain, view north from the footbridge. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11651.jpg "Tain")
![Tain looking south. 16/10/06<br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11652.jpg "Tain")
![Tain. The main building, redundant and boarded up. 16/10/06 <br><br>[John Gray 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11653.jpg "Tain")
![158725 calls at Ardgay in April 2007.<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2007]](/images/14000/14501.jpg "Ardgay")
![Stanier 8F 48151 coasts through Ardgay with <I>The Great Britain</I> railtour on 12 April.<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2007]](/images/14000/14504.jpg "Ardgay")
![This is where Clachnaharry Station (closed 1913) used to be. It is now the beer garden of a pub.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15952.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A view of the Clachnaharry swing bridge from the footbridge at the site of the former station.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15953.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The Clachnaharry swing bridge opens to allow a small boat to start its journey to Fort William.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15954.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The Clachnaharry swing bridge opens for traffic.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15955.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![158705 crosses the swing bridge at Clachnaharry on its way to Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15956.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The signal box at Clachnaharry is still operational.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15957.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The Clachnaharry swing bridge,Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2007]](/images/15000/15958.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Old station building at Lentran, now in a very run down and dangerous state. It may not be around much longer as the ground is up for sale. Photograph with kind permission of the owner.(Demolished in October 2007)<br><br>[John Gray 16/08/2007]](/images/16000/16224.jpg "Lentran")
![A view of the inside of Lentran station two months before demolition.The floor is rotten and has partially collapsed by the doorway.<br><br>[John Gray 16/08/2007]](/images/17000/17091.jpg "Lentran")
![A train from the far north passing the long closed station at Meikle Ferry on 25 August 2007. The station was open for less than 5 years, closing on 1 January 1869, having been originally planned when consideration was being given to taking a direct route north from here across the Dornoch Firth. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/08/2007]](/images/16000/16714.jpg "Meikle Ferry")
![<I>And you couldn't wish for better neighbours... </I> Looking west beyond the old Edderton station in August 2007 towards the Balblair distillery dating from 1790.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16465.jpg "Edderton")
![The main station building at Ardgay in August 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16527.jpg "Ardgay")
![Part of the Tracey Shough commemorative mural at Invergordon station, 30 August 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16560.jpg "Invergordon")
![The former station building on the down platform at Tain on 30 August 2007, showing how <I>unused</I> need not necessarily mean <I>neglected</I>. [See image 16648]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16647.jpg "Tain")
![A quiet Thursday afternoon in Alness on 30 August as two schoolgirls in the shelter on the shortened platform look on in admiration as the local <I>Tarzan</I> turns in a virtuoso performance on the <I>parallel scaffolding</I>. View east towards Invergordon.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16865.jpg "Alness")
![The former station at Nigg on 30 August 2007 looking south from the level crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16886.jpg "Nigg")
![Approximately 5 miles northeast of Dingwall on the north shore of the Cromarty Firth stand the remains of the long closed station at Foulis, seen from the south side of the private crossing in August 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16946.jpg "Foulis")
![View north from the platform at Fearn station 30 August 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16980.jpg "Fearn")
![View south at Invergordon on 30 August with rigs dominating the skyline behind the station.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/17000/17012.jpg "Invergordon")
![Platform side at Ardgay looking south on 30 August 2007. The station originally carried the name Bonar Bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/17000/17066.jpg "Ardgay")
![The former station at Edderton, Ross-shire (1864), attractively converted for private use, seen here looking towards Bonar Bridge on 30 August 2007. Passenger services were withdawn from Edderton in June 1960. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/20000/20512.jpg "Edderton")
![The attractive 1864 station at Fearn, seen from the B9165 road bridge in the summer of 2007. Looking south west along the platform in the general direction of Invergordon.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/37000/37219.jpg "Fearn")
![The former station at Nigg on 30 August 2007 looking south towards Invergordon. View from the road with the level crossing off picture to the right. [See image 16886] [Ref query 5821]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2007]](/images/48000/48017.jpg "Nigg")
![I love tea rooms on platforms, this one is at Dingwall.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16844.jpg "Dingwall")
![Gleaming refurbished 158701 at Alness. September 2007.<br>
The flowers in the baskets have been selected to match the train sets?<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/17000/17218.jpg "Alness")
![The old Beauly station buildings seen from a train on 22 September. Looking towards Inverness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/16000/16863.jpg "Beauly")
![Approach to the former station forecourt at Meikle Ferry in August 2007. The building is now part of a local holiday complex.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/8/2007]](/images/16000/16713.jpg "Meikle Ferry")
![Refurbishment work underway on the entrance to Invergordon station in 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/8/2007]](/images/16000/16649.jpg "Invergordon")
![K4 61994 <I> The Great Marquess </I> crossing the viaduct over the River Conon with <I> The Great Britain II </I> early in the morning of Saturday 11 April 2009.<br><br>[John Gray 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23319.jpg "Conon Bridge Viaduct")
![The <i>Great Marquess</i> at Inverness with the <i>Great Britain II railtour</i>.<br><br>[Hamish Baillie 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23345.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking northwest at Clachnaharry on 22 May, with the swing bridge open to allow a yacht to pass through. The Beauly Firth is visible beyond, while the Canal sea lock is obscured by the gorse bushes at the end of the bridge.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 22/05/2009]](/images/23000/23895.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![158718 crosses the Caledonian Canal swing bridge at Clachnaharry on Friday 22nd May 2009 with the 11:03 Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh.<br>
<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 22/05/2009]](/images/23000/23896.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Platform view south at Alness station in September 2009. [See image 29586]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2009]](/images/29000/29585.jpg "Alness")
![A northbound Sprinter approaches Invergordon from the south. This was the service which only runs as far as Invergordon from Inverness. Invergordon Harbour continues to be busy supporting the oil industry - there are five rigs in this shot (the jack up legs of the furthest to the left are only just visible). I wish I could do a from left to right naming of them - anyone like to help me out?<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25757.jpg "Invergordon")
![The empty coaching stock of the <i>Royal Scotsman</i> absolutely hammers through Fearn. The passengers had alighted at Tain and the coaches went to Inverness for servicing. This was the train returning to Tain to pick up the passengers.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25810.jpg "Fearn")
![West Coast Railways class 47 no 47804 runs round <I>The Royal Scotsman</I> at Tain on 29 September.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25941.jpg "Tain")
![A service from the north pauses at Invergordon. The removal of the footbridge from Invergordon station has created quite a long walk for law abiding passengers who need to cross the tracks. And we have lost a vantage point for photographs.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/09/2009]](/images/26000/26283.jpg "Invergordon")
![Part of Tracey Shough's <i>The Long Goodbye</i> mural for the 4th battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders at Invergordon station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/09/2009]](/images/26000/26290.jpg "Invergordon")
![The lines to the Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh split to go their separate ways half a mile north of Dingwall station. The photograph, taken from one of the two foot crossings on an overcast 1 October 2009, shows 158720, forming the 1203 service from Kyle, slowly approaching the junction to join the route from Wick and Thurso as it turns south towards Inverness. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/25000/25869.jpg "Dingwall Junction")
![View south from Dingwall station as the 1101 Inverness - Dingwall service runs slowly towards its destination on 1 October 2009. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/26000/26166.jpg "Dingwall")
![The 1101 ex-Inverness stands at Dingwall on 1 October 2009. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/26000/26245.jpg "Dingwall")
![The 1862 station building at Dingwall, looking south east from Station Road on 1 October 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/26000/26845.jpg "Dingwall")
![The 1203 service from Kyle of Lochalsh about to join the route from Wick and Thurso at Dingwall Junction on 1 October 2009 on its way to Inverness. Photograph taken from alongside the public foot crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/31000/31696.jpg "Dingwall Junction")
![View north from the station footbridge at Dingwall on 1 October 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/42000/42913.jpg "Dingwall")
![Next stop Dingwall. Heading south after passing through Dingwall Junction on 1 October 2009 is ScotRail 158720 forming the 1203 service from Kyle of Lochalsh to Inverness.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/10/2009]](/images/57000/57097.jpg "Dingwall Junction")
![The 12.16 Inverness - Dingwall service crosses the Caledonian Canal on Clachnaharry swing bridge on Saturday 3 October, just as the sun (yes, the sun) begins to break through the rain clouds.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/25000/25850.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The short platform at Beauly on 3 October looking towards Muir of Ord. A non-stop 158 service running north through the station at speed stirs up some of the autumn leaves lying below the bridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/25000/25966.jpg "Beauly")
![With strong winds and rain battering the shores of the Beauly Firth, an afternoon train off the Far North line rumbles over Clachnaharry swing bridge as it nears its ultimate destination on 3 October 2009. The Kessock Bridge, carrying the A9, dominates the background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/26000/26068.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Having cleared the bridge carrying the A862, the 0812 Wick - Inverness train runs past the deserted beer garden at the rear of the Clachnaharry Inn on 3 October as it approaches the swing bridge over the Caledonian Canal. With the chill wind and driving rain off the Beauly Firth, it was only the continuing thought of eventually taking a comfy seat near the warm fire in the bar that made this picture possible. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/26000/26259.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Turning south off the A862 just to the west of Inverness, an unclassified road runs up the hill past the former Bunchrew station and over the open level crossing. The station house and the approach to the crossing are seen here on 3 October 2009. [See image 6089]<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/26000/26431.jpg "Bunchrew")
![The 1038 Inverness - Wick arrives at Muir of Ord on 3 October 2009. Most of the former railway land here has been disposed of in recent years with a housing development occupying the area beyond the fence that now forms the eastern boundary of the station.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/26000/26513.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The impressive former station building at Beauly seen from the current mini-platform on 3 October 2009 looking towards Inverness. Nowadays the building is in use as a combination of office and residential accommodation.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/26000/26852.jpg "Beauly")
![A wet-looking 158 from the far north runs towards Clachnaharry swing bridge through torrential rain on 3 October 2009 as it approaches Inverness and journey's end.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2009]](/images/27000/27493.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The 0812 service from Wick to Inverness, formed by 158716, stops at Muir of Ord on 19 May, a few minutes ahead of its scheduled 1155 arrival time. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/05/2010]](/images/29000/29150.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![67007 crossing the viaduct over the River Conon with the tanker train for Lairg on 5 February 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John Gray 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32637.jpg "Conon Bridge Viaduct")
![The overgrown platform at Conon station (closed June 1960) photographed on 5 February 2011. A new station (to be named Conon Bridge) is proposed for the village, hopefully before 2012, when there are major road works planned for the Kessock Bridge. These are expected to result in significant delays to road traffic, particularly during in the morning and evening peaks. Protracted discussions regarding the cost (£1.6m for a basic platform and shelter) and 'who pays?' have delayed the project.<br>
<br><br>[John Gray 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32642.jpg "Conon")
![Class 31 locomotives 31602 <I>'Driver Dave Green'</I> and 31233 top and tail track inspection coach DB999508 at Muir of Ord on 12 April 2011 on their way north.<br>
<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2011]](/images/33000/33621.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Looking north along the platform at Fearn towards Tain on 19 April 2011. The substantial main station building here is now a private house - with its 'replacement' in the foreground.<br><br>[John Gray 19/04/2011]](/images/33000/33834.jpg "Fearn")
![The 1236 from Wick calls at Alness on time at 1603 heading for Inverness. A couple of passengers join 158709 which will arrive in Inverness in 45 minutes time. View north towards Invergordon from the local academy footbridge.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/06/2011]](/images/34000/34680.jpg "Alness")
![The 1236 service from Wick (and Thurso) departs from Alness and heads for Dingwall. This photograph of unit 158709 was taken from the academy footbridge that spans the line at the station and offers this view to the south. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/06/2011]](/images/35000/35387.jpg "Alness")
![Real ale and really close trains. Customers in the beer garden at the Clachnaharry Inn look on as 158722 accelerates away from the swing bridge speed restriction on its way to Wick on 1 July with the mid day service from Inverness. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/34000/34765.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![Clachnaharry bridge swings open on 1 July 2011, during a suitable opportunity between trains to allow several pleasure craft to exit the Caledonian Canal. This is the view inland from the final stretch towards the sea loch showing the signal box on the west side and the bridge swinging over to the east bank.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/34000/34906.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![The Kessock Bridge almost frames 158720, as it negotiates the 10mph Clachnaharry swing bridge while heading west on a Kyle line service on 1 July 2011. This view was taken from the beer garden of the Clachnaharry Inn at the site of the long closed station. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/35000/35467.jpg "Clachnaharry")
![A plaque commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Inverness - Dingwall lines presented by David Simpson, Network Rail Managing Director in Scotland, to Richard Ardern of the Friends of the Far North Line before their AGM in Dingwall on 11 June 2012.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 11/06/2012]](/images/39000/39175.jpg "Dingwall")
![David Martin with the commemorative plaque at Muir of Ord on 16 June 2012 [see news item]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 16/06/2012]](/images/31000/31227.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![Muir of Ord commemorative plaque - detail [see news item].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 16/06/2012]](/images/32000/32266.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![The <I>Lairg Tanks</I>, a weekly working from Grangemouth, approaches Dingwall on Friday 6th July 2012. Here 66110 and its eight four wheeled fuel tanks will wait to cross a southbound passenger service. My own train to Wick later overtook the freight at Tain station.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/07/2012]](/images/39000/39572.jpg "Dingwall")
![The 0620 Wick to Inverness, formed by a pair of Class 158s, leaves Dingwall on the last stage of its journey on 6 July 2012. There are two more intermediate stops before a scheduled arrival in Inverness at 1035. View towards Muir of Ord on a gloomy July morning. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/07/2012]](/images/39000/39965.jpg "Dingwall")
![Thurso and Wick bound 158702 draws in to Dingwall station on its way north. The main station buildings are behind the camera with the smaller shelters seen here on the Inverness platform.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/07/2012]](/images/40000/40308.jpg "Dingwall")
![End of the line for Michael Portillo during the recording of <I>Great British Railway Journeys</I>, seen here at Wick with John Yellowlees in September 2012. [Editors note: The broad smiles are due to the pair having just discovered that they buy their shirts from the same website. (RailShirt.com)]<br><br>[John Yellowlees Collection /09/2012]](/images/13000/13265.jpg "Wick")
![The almost finished new station at Conon Bridge on 7 January 2013, with 158718 passing the one coach length platform on its way to Kyle of Lochalsh. Utilitarian is probably the kindest description of the new station, which is due to open to the public on the 7th February 2013, by which time it will have a standard waiting shelter and a small car park.<br><br>[John Gray 07/01/2013]](/images/41000/41631.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![Closed 13 June 1960, reopened 8 February 2013. [See news item] <br><br>[John Yellowlees 08/02/2013]](/images/41000/41996.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![Platform scene at Conon Bridge station on 8 February 2013, first day of the new train services [see news item].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 08/02/2013]](/images/41000/41999.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![158722 arrives at Conon Bridge with the 16:19 to Inverness (12.36 ex-Wick) on 18 February 2013. View north showing the station entrance, bicycle shelter/lockers and part of the eight space car park. A footpath to the village is still under construction off to the right.<br><br>[John Gray 18/02/2013]](/images/42000/42109.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![The now completed station at Conon Bridge, photographed from the station entrance on 18 February 2013.<br><br>[John Gray 18/02/2013]](/images/42000/42115.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![Passing Evanton on 26 April, <I>The Royal Scotsman</I> heading for Brora hauled by WCRC Class 47 no 47804.<br><br>[John Gray 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42929.jpg "Evanton")
![The Network Rail test train passing Evanton on the far north line on 26 April 2013, with 37218 in front and 37605 on the rear.<br><br>[John Gray 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42942.jpg "Evanton")
![158715 runs into Conon Bridge on 23 June with the return Sunday afternoon 16.20 Invergordon to Inverness service.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 23/06/2013]](/images/43000/43600.jpg "Conon Bridge")
![DRS 37218 and 37423 top and tail 5 autoballasters past Beauly on their way to Strathcarron on 8 August in preparation for overnight engineering works. <br><br>[John Gray 08/08/2013]](/images/44000/44130.jpg "Beauly")
![Unit 9701 leads the Network Rail test train on its return journey from Wick to Inverness on 28 January. Photographed at Muir of Ord waiting for a northbound passenger train to pass. DRS 37425 is the locomotive bringing up the rear.<br><br>[John Gray 28/01/2014]](/images/50000/50166.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![66100 heads north away from Beauly on 28 February with the tanker train for Lairg.<br><br>[John Gray 28/02/2014]](/images/46000/46488.jpg "Beauly")
![37685 <i> Loch Arkaig </i> and 37516 <i> Loch Laidon </i> bring <i> The Royal Scotsman </i> round the curve at the west side of Beauly on 8 May on the way to Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[John Gray 08/05/2014]](/images/47000/47299.jpg "Beauly")
![66114 in DB Schenker red livery hauls the tanker train from Lairg across the Ness Viaduct on 18 July 2014. The train is destined for Mossend yard.<br><br>[John Gray 18/07/2014]](/images/48000/48050.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![DRS 37425 is the motive power at the rear of the Network Rail test train departing Muir of Ord for Inverness on 28 January 2015. [See image 50166] <br><br>[John Gray 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50170.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![DRS 37259 and 37602 with the nuclear flask special for Georgemas Junction have just passed Beauly on 2 February 2015 on their way north.<br><br>[John Gray 02/02/2015]](/images/50000/50219.jpg "Beauly")
![DRS 37259 + 37607 trundle through Muir of Ord on 11 February 2015 with the northbound nuclear flask special for Georgemas Junction.<br><br>[John Gray 11/02/2015]](/images/50000/50344.jpg "Muir of Ord")
![37602 with three DRS liveried coaches in tow heads for Wick from Inverness on 12 February 2015. It appears to have been a recovery train of some sort, on its way to collect a coach from a test train that had developed a fault. <br><br>[John Gray 12/02/2015]](/images/50000/50352.jpg "Beauly")
![DRS 37607+37218 double heading the 1Z69 Pathfinder Tour to Kyle of Lochalsh north of Beauly on 4 April 2015.<br><br>[John Gray 04/04/2015]](/images/50000/50893.jpg "Beauly")
![37425 comes off the curve west of Beauly on a route learning trip to Wick on 13 April 2015.<br><br>[John Gray 13/04/2015]](/images/51000/51067.jpg "Beauly")
![DRS 37218 and 37605 top and tail the nuclear flask train southwards between Invergordon and Alness on 1 May 2015. In the background the Cromarty Firth, with a couple of drilling platforms awaiting a recall to the North Sea.<br><br>[John Gray 01/05/2015]](/images/51000/51196.jpg "Alness")
![37218 and 37425 Sir Robert McAlpine double head Pathfinder Tours Autumn Chieftain across the Ness Viaduct at the start of the journey to Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[John Gray 26/09/2015]](/images/52000/52710.jpg "Ness Viaduct")
![Black 5 No.44871,on the way to Kyle of Lochalsh,runs alongside the Beauly Firth near the site of the closed station at Clunes.The Kessock Bridge in the background.<br><br>[John Gray 02/05/2016]](/images/55000/55139.jpg "Clunes")
![37688 <i>Kingmoor TMD</i> and 37607 are running late as they approach the site of the closed station at Clunes with five autoballasters for Fodderty.<br><br>[John Gray 06/06/2016]](/images/55000/55499.jpg "Clunes")
![The interior of the <i>Platform 1864</i> restaurant at Tain station (not Frant!).<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/06/2016]](/images/55000/55540.jpg "Tain")
![The main station building at Tain has been converted into a restaurant and some alterations made to the platform entrance, seen here.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/06/2016]](/images/55000/55806.jpg "Tain")
![Informative plaque at Tain.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/06/2016]](/images/55000/55813.jpg "Tain")
![158721 passes the closed station at Edderton, and the Balblair Distillery, heading for Thurso and Wick with a service from Inverness on a misty 20th July 2016.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016]](/images/55000/55889.jpg "Edderton")
![158715, on a Wick to Inverness service, has just passed through the closed station at Meikle Ferry and is seen under the approach road for the Dornoch Firth bridge. 20th July 2016<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016]](/images/56000/56019.jpg "Meikle Ferry")
![The <I>Platform 1864</I> restuarant at Tain station in July 2016. The passenger entrance to the platforms is on the left behind the old weighbridge hut. This view compares favourably with [See image 11649] taken before restoration of the semi-derelict station building. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016]](/images/56000/56277.jpg "Tain")
![Late evening scene at Tain with DB 66100 and 158704. The 66 was on a long train of empty bogie wagons from Georgemas Junction and running 90 minutes late at this point. It would have a further wait here for the 158 on the 2216hrs Tain to Inverness service to clear the section to Invergordon.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/07/2016]](/images/55000/55896.jpg "Tain")
![158710, on a service from Inverness to Ardgay, draws to a stand alongside the station building at Tain, now converted into the recently opened and excellent <I>Platform 1864</I> restaurant that has won Railway Heritage awards for the tasteful building conversion.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/07/2016]](/images/56000/56085.jpg "Tain")
![158704, working from Wick to Inverness, calls at Tain on 22nd July 2016. Through the gap in the trees the Dornoch Firth can be seen.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/07/2016]](/images/56000/56507.jpg "Tain")
![158708 at Dingwall forming the 14 10 Scotrail service to Inverness on 15th March 2017.<br><br>[Brian Smith 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58474.jpg "Dingwall")
![A 'grab shot' showing the underpass built for a possible rail link to Highland Deephaven.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection 30/09/2017]](/images/61000/61511.jpg "Evanton")
