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Kyle Of Lochalsh Extension Railway
[John Robin 25/09/1982]" longdesc="" class="image56">
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![View looking north at the incomplete Skye Bridge crossing the Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/648.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Sprinter near Duncraig.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/651.jpg "Duncraig")
![Duirinish station viewed from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/653.jpg "Duirinish")
![Class 37 hauled ballast train being loaded at Kyle of Lochalsh. View looks north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/658.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking south over Kyle of Lochalsh signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/659.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking south at a sprinter at Kyle of Lochalsh station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/660.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking north at a sprinter in Kyle of Lochalsh station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/661.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Plockton station viewed from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/663.jpg "Plockton")
![26037 ready to leave Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12992.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Evening scene at Kyle of Lochalsh, undated.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/17000/17500.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A party of academics and planners from developing countries waits to board the Inverness train at Plockton in the summer of 1983. The 'Plockton seminar' on regional development was an annual event for many years organised by the photographer, originally in his capacity as Head of Planning & Research at the Highlands & Islands Development Board.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/27000/27390.jpg "Plockton")
![This looks like Scotland's rail equivalent of the Kinder Scout 'mass trespass', but in fact is almost certainly a 1973-74 official visit (via Duirinish station and the railway track) to the proposed oil platform construction yard at nearby Drumbeg by the Public Inquiry team, witnesses, objectors and supporters. The scheme was thrown out, and an alternative, less controversial, site developed on the north side of Loch Carron at Kishorn, which generated valuable freight traffic for the Kyle line at the Strome Ferry railhead for some five years.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/31000/31222.jpg "Duirinish")
![Plenty of steel on rail in this 1970s view of the terminus at Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/31000/31687.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The multi-purpose railway at Kyle of Lochalsh in the late 1960s - passengers, parcels, mail, freight, and direct interchange with MacBraynes buses - plus of course the Skye ferry.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/32000/32477.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![An eastbound goods from Kyle to Inverness near Duirinish in the mid 1970s. This is thought to be after the Stornoway ferry switched to Ullapool in 1973, following which freight to Kyle was conveyed on the early morning mixed train from Inverness, with just one return service a week for freight - this dedicated Saturdays-only train.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/40000/40135.jpg "Duirinish")
![General view over the station at Kyle of Lochalsh on 7 September 1961 with <I>Loch Seaforth</I>, recently arrived from Mallaig, berthed on the right of the picture. [See image 27258] <br><br>[David Stewart 07/09/1961]](/images/46000/46642.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The ex-<i>Devon Belle</i> observation car stands at Kyle in July 1963 having arrived on the 9.25 am from Inverness. <br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/25000/25980.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Signal box at Kyle, July 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/26000/26349.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A Sulzer Type 2 coming onto the Inverness train at Kyle of Lochalsh in July 1963<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/29000/29839.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![An Inverness train about to depart Kyle of Lochalsh behind a Sulzer Type 2 in July 1963.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/29000/29925.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A general view over the south side of the station at Kyle of Lochalsh in July 1963.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/32000/32591.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![D5334 prepares to leave Kyle of Lochalsh for Inverness on 17 August 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 17/08/1965]](/images/50000/50070.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Plenty of goods vans and an operational steam crane in evidence at Kyle of Lochalsh in the summer of 1966 as <I>Loch Seaforth</I> calls en route from Mallaig to Stornoway.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1966]](/images/27000/27258.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The <I>'Devon Belle'</I> observation car can be glimpsed behind a strange piece of BR platform equipment at Kyle of Lochalsh on a dreich October day in 1966. The tractor was used to shunt fish vans on the quayside and the planking was to cushion the buffers. [With thanks to Adrian Morgan]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /10/1966]](/images/34000/34821.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The daily goods for Inverness heads out of Kyle on a dreich October day in 1966.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /10/1966]](/images/41000/41633.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![An Inverness train prepares to leave Kyle in 1969, when freight was an important part of the railway's role and the steamer from Mallaig still called at the railway pier en route to Stornoway.<br><br>[David Spaven //1969]](/images/39000/39168.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![By the time <I>Scottish Grand Tour No. 9</I> reached Kyle of Lochalsh on the mid-afternoon of 13 September 1969 the skies had cleared and D5117 and D5120 are seen running round their train at the terminus in glorious late summer sunshine.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/09/1969]](/images/48000/48741.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![An Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh service arrives at Plockton in July 1970.<br><br>[John Robin /07/1970]](/images/47000/47837.jpg "Plockton")
![A spring 1971 view from a Kyle-Inverness train skirting Loch Carron.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1971]](/images/42000/42170.jpg "Loch Carron")
![Once a common sight throughout the British railway network, a trio of empty cattle trucks photographed at Kyle of Lochalsh in September 1971. <br><br>[Jim Peebles /09/1971]](/images/31000/31275.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Parcels traffic and bitumen tanks at Kyle of Lochalsh in summer 1972.<br><br>[David Spaven //1972]](/images/36000/36635.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![View over the of south side of Kyle of Lochalsh station in August 1972 with a type 2 diesel locomotive marshalling a freight.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1972]](/images/25000/25842.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Train from Inverness arriving at Kyle of Lochalsh in August 1972 behind D5346.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1972]](/images/26000/26949.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A Type 2 marshalling a goods train at Kyle of Lochalsh in August 1972.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1972]](/images/36000/36297.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Running round at Kyle of Lochalsh in August 1972. <br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1972]](/images/41000/41953.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Milk churns are amongst the sundries and parcels traffic being transferred from rail van to lorry in this summer 1974 shot at Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/33000/33390.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A Class 24 shunts Kyle of Lochalsh in Summer 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/38000/38517.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Just out of Kyle, a Class 24-hauled train for Inverness hugs the shoreline at Erbusaig in Summer 1974. [With thanks to all who responded to this query.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/40000/40305.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking east along platform 1 at Kyle of Lochalsh on a sunny afternoon in August 1976 with a train just arrived from Inverness.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1976]](/images/18000/18312.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![26013 departs Kyle with Presflos for the Howard Doris oil rig yard at Stromeferry in 1977. The former locomotive shed was located on the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/27000/27670.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The driver of 26013 wearing local headgear at Kyle of Lochalsh in 1977. [Editor's note: All 28 alternative captions that can be applied to this photograph (none of which is printable) have now been received, thank you.] <br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/27000/27678.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A pair of Type 2s with a special at Kyle of Lochalsh in 1977, locomotive 26019 is nearest the camera.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney //1977]](/images/30000/30283.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A rare sight - snow at Kyle, seen in this early 1977 view.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/30000/30970.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A pair of type 2s alongside the signal box at Kyle of Lochalsh in 1977. The locomotives were getting ready to return to Inverness with a special.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney //1977]](/images/33000/33906.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Kyle of Lochalsh's 60' turntable being prepared for removal to Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/58000/58821.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Wagon turntable at the end of the pier in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/58000/58836.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The Kyle of Lochalsh starter/home signals in August 1977. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/08/1977]](/images/50000/50770.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The evening sun catches the last train of the day from Inverness to Kyle as it skirts the south shore of Loch Carron on the approach to Plockton station in the summer of 1979.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1979]](/images/32000/32243.jpg "Plockton")
![A glorious evening to be on the last Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh service of the day. The train is seen here skirting the south shore of Loch Carron as it heads west near Duncraig on a summer evening in 1979.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1979]](/images/35000/35523.jpg "Duncraig")
![A Class 26 waits at Kyle of Lochalsh in April 1979.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1979]](/images/11000/11419.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Kyle of Lochalsh 2 - April 1979.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1979]](/images/15000/15937.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Kyle of Lochalsh 3 - April 1979.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1979]](/images/15000/15938.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A Type 2 with a PW train during work being carried out at Kyle of Lochalsh in 1980.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1980]](/images/36000/36462.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A summer evening train from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh about to arrive at Plockton in 1980.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1980]](/images/37000/37500.jpg "Plockton")
![26044 shunts at Kyle of Lochalsh. 6th August 1981.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 06/08/1981]](/images/57000/57490.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A View of Kyle of Lochalsh from August 1982.<br><br>[John Gray /08/1982]](/images/9000/9149.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![LMS 5025 taking water at Kyle of Lochalsh 25 September 1982 standing alongside 37184 which took the train back to Inverness.<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/09/1982]](/images/19000/19322.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![LMS 5025, 37.184 and 26.043 at the north end of Kyle of Lochalsh station on 25 September 1982. The 37 returned the special to Inverness.<br><br>[John Robin 25/09/1982]](/images/19000/19326.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A train for Inverness stands at the platform at Kyle of Lochalsh on a wet Saturday afternoon in November 1982. Freight activities (including coal in the foreground) still survive at this point in time.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 20/11/1982]](/images/33000/33310.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Skirting Loch Carron at Erbusaig, just north of Kyle, with the 1983 SRPS tour.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1983]](/images/10000/10931.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![An eastbound Inverness-Kyle of Lochalsh trains slows for Plockton in the summer of 1983, with Loch Carron in the background.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1983]](/images/30000/30538.jpg "Plockton")
![Kyle box was still issuing tokens in 1983.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1983]](/images/12000/12323.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![37027 running around the 1983 SRPS tour. The Macbraynes delivery van was an everyday sight in these parts. in 1983.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/1983]](/images/10000/10996.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Ex-GWR saloon no 9004 photographed on a train at Kyle of Lochalsh on 14 June 1983.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 14/06/1983]](/images/22000/22357.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![26.026 leaves for Inverness. The dark Cuillins are the magnificent backdrop.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/1983]](/images/10000/10496.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Busy scene at Kyle of Lochalsh in 1984.<br><br>[David Panton //1984]](/images/18000/18326.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![37 197 stands at the head of a train stabled for the night under a stormy sky at Kyle of Lochalsh one evening in 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1987]](/images/18000/18244.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Having recently arrived with a train from Inverness, no 37415 stands at the platform at Kyle of Lochalsh under ever darkening skies on an August afternoon in 1987.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre /08/1987]](/images/33000/33041.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A class 37 stands at Kyle of Lochalsh with empty stock on the evening of 30 August 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 30/08/1987]](/images/32000/32294.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![37 416 entering Kyle of Lochalsh. The signalbox is to the left and the locomotive shed was on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8940.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Separating 37 416 from its train at Kyle of Lochalsh in order to run round. Two walkers try to blend in with the high visibility jackets.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8941.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![37 416 has just run round and backed down on its train at Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8942.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Ready and waiting for customers for Inverness at Kyle. Skye can be seen on the far side of the Kyle.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8943.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The signalbox at Kyle of Lochalsh, living on as a bothy.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/9000/9142.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking to the station and pier at Kyle of Lochalsh from beside the signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/9000/9143.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking away from Kyle towards Inverness. The locomotive shed was on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/9000/9144.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Platform 1 at Kyle looking to Inverness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/9000/9145.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Platform 2 at Kyle looking to Inverness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/9000/9146.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Car ferry at Kyle of Lochalsh. The hotel behind the ferry was the station hotel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/9000/9147.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Kyle of Lochalsh station pier and the Admiralty pier viewed from the Kyle - Kyleakin ferry in 1991. 37408 and a tour train are in the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1991]](/images/30000/30431.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![37408 at Kyle of Lochalsh in 1991 with a train making use of an old DMU coach as an observation car.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1991]](/images/53000/53460.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The former Highland Railway Lochalsh Hotel at night in 1993 with the slip in the foreground. The ferries had stopped for the night and were tied up at the station pier. Beyond the hotel is the under construction Skye Bridge and, to the left, Kyleakin.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1993]](/images/57000/57022.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Duncraig looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1994]](/images/10000/10587.jpg "Duncraig")
![Duirinish looking to Kyle of Lochalsh in 1994. [See image 39698]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1994]](/images/10000/10590.jpg "Duirinish")
![Kyle of Lochalsh signal box in 1995. At this time it was redundant and being used as a store.<br><br>[John Gray //1995]](/images/5000/5411.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Your eyes do not deceive you. That is freight at Kyle of Lochalsh. Back in January of 1997 an experimental timber train was loaded at Kyle for Workington, the first freight in 15 years. That was followed in March by this train, carrying 250 tonnes of Caithness flagstone for the 'Kyle Prospect' development. The train had been loaded at Georgmas Junction, with feed destined for fish farms added at Inverness. The unloaded flagstones can be seen piled in the background. The same train was then loaded with further timber destined for Workington. [See image 36320]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/03/1997]](/images/38000/38387.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Platform scene at Plockton in October 1999, looking west towards Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[Colin Miller 04/10/1999]](/images/21000/21847.jpg "Plockton")
![The 17:21 Kyle to Inverness awaiting departure.<br><br>[Scott MacGregor 05/05/2004]](/images/9000/9122.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![2006 SRPS arrived in Kyle, it was plooterin. The landmark Lochash Hotel in the background<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/10000/10947.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Misty Islands. 158.718 has arrived. It will sit here until early tomorrow. The Cuillins can hardly be seen in the mist.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/11000/11412.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![End of the line at Kyle of Lochalsh on the 30th of March 2007.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 30/03/2007]](/images/30000/30863.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A view of Plockton looking east in typical west coast weather.<br><br>[John Gray 22/04/2007]](/images/14000/14699.jpg "Plockton")
![The <i>Great Marquess</i> on arrival at Kyle with the <i>Great Britain II</i> railtour.<br><br>[Hamish Baillie 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23347.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The station at Plockton is undergoing very sympathetic conversion into a self catering cottage. The owner kindly allowed me to take some interior photographs including this one of the old ticket window (staff side).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2009]](/images/25000/25758.jpg "Plockton")
![Plockton has a bunkhouse in the style of a signalbox opposite the station platform. Twinned with Newtonmore? [See image 7632]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2009]](/images/25000/25759.jpg "Plockton")
![The Royal Scotsman on arrival at Kyle. The locomotive has been re-fueled and is seen running round. The railway pier sees a lot of (non railway) use, wind turbines are being unloaded from a vessel on the right and two days later that side of the pier was entirely covered with timber.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25628.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The 1435 service to Inverness waits at Kyle of Lochalsh on 29 September 2009.... errr, on the left <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25722.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The 1101 Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh leaves the south shore of Loch Carron on 29 September as it slows for the stop at Plockton. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25731.jpg "Plockton")
![Having arrived at Kyle of Lochalsh earlier on 29 September as the 1101 ex-Inverness, unit 158707 prepares to undertake the two and a half hour return journey scheduled to depart at 1435.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/25000/25952.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![What at first glance might seem like an extreme way of avoiding the ticket barriers... is in fact part of the extensive safety work carried out during September and October 2009 on rock faces at the western end of the Kyle line. This resulted in temporary closures to both road and rail links during the period. This scene shows work in progress just outside Kyle of Lochalsh station on 29 September as the 1435 service leaves for Inverness. Note the old Kyle signal box still standing in the background. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/26000/26328.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Signal box at Kyle, September 2009. [See image 26349]<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/26000/26348.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The 1435 service to Inverness bides its time at Kyle of Lochalsh on 29 September 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/26000/26415.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The 1435 for Inverness stands at Kyle on 29 September 2009, with the usual curtain of mist hanging over Skye. On the right a freighter is about to unload wind turbine components onto articulated lorries, which were later seen heading over the Skye bridge with their <I>very wide</I> loads, complete with police escort.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/27000/27059.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Unit 158707 stands at Kyle of Lochalsh on 29 September 2009 after arriving with the 11.01 ex-Inverness. The train will eventually leave as the 14.35 return service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/43000/43273.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Platform view at Duirinish in September 2009, looking south west towards Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2009]](/images/43000/43953.jpg "Duirinish")
![The morning service from Inverness passes south through Erbusaig with only a short distance left to reach Kyle of Lochalsh. The train came through the narrow cleft in the cliff above the right hand side of the right carriage. There are signs of recent embankment stengthening works. The view looks towards the Crowlin Islands. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 01/10/2009]](/images/25000/25735.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![A Sprinter heading to Inverness runs by the coast between Portnacroish and Duirinish. On the horizon is the Cuillin range on Skye.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 01/10/2009]](/images/25000/25785.jpg "Duirinish")
![A Sprinter runs by a remote section of Loch Carron about a mile south of Duirinish station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 01/10/2009]](/images/25000/25953.jpg "Duirinish")
![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...<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/10/2009]](/images/26000/26277.jpg "Plockton")
![The road approach to Plockton station in October 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/10/2009]](/images/26000/26885.jpg "Plockton")
![K4 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> rounds the curve at Erbusaig near Kyle of Lochalsh with <I>The Great Britain III</I> on 12 April.<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2010]](/images/28000/28480.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![158706 unloads passengers at Kyle of Lochalsh on 22 June, following arrival at 11.28 with the service from Inverness. Photographed from the former Kyleakin ferry slipway. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 22/06/2011]](/images/34000/34743.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![After a 35 minute lay-over at Kyle of Lochalsh, no 158706 is about to start its two and a half hour journey back to Inverness with the 12.03 departure on 22 June.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 22/06/2011]](/images/34000/34752.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Kyle extension line at Plockton in September 2011 showing rock fall protection.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 18/09/2011]](/images/35000/35848.jpg "Plockton")
![View west over Plockton Station towards Kyke of Lochalsh on 18 September 2011.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 18/09/2011]](/images/35000/35856.jpg "Plockton")
![The station at Kyle of Lochalsh, the building redolent of WHR station design, with a DMU waiting to depart with a service to Inverness on 21 September.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 21/09/2011]](/images/35000/35829.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![158722 at the platform at Kyle of Lochalsh on 21 September 2011 awaiting its departure time with the next service to Inverness.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 21/09/2011]](/images/35000/35862.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Plockton Station in September 2011. The station building is now used as a holiday home.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 22/09/2011]](/images/35000/35820.jpg "Plockton")
![What looks like the former Plockton signal box, is in fact a bunkhouse. Seen here on 22 September looking south across the line from Station Road.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 22/09/2011]](/images/35000/35836.jpg "Plockton")
![Last stop before Kyle of Lochalsh is Duirinish and this view looks west towards the terminus at the small request stop. Although the shelter has been around for some time both it and the station generally have recently enjoyed a light refurbishment. [See image 10590] for the same location in 1994.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/07/2012]](/images/39000/39698.jpg "Duirinish")
![Another picture of the tidy station at Duirinish, this time looking east towards Plockton. This is the first of nine surviving intermediate stations between Kyle and Dingwall and, like several others on the line, is a request stop where many trains pass through without calling. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/07/2012]](/images/39000/39719.jpg "Duirinish")
![Duirinish station serves the village of the same name, but that's not immediately apparent. This is a view looking south from the station platform, through the entrance, with the narrow road to the village heading off across the moss.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/07/2012]](/images/40000/40895.jpg "Duirinish")
![Newly arrived 158719 stands at the quayside station in Kyle of Lochalsh on 11 July 2012, with the Skye Bridge in the background. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/07/2012]](/images/39000/39608.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![With the Isle of Skye in the background 158719 stands at Kyle of Lochalsh terminus on 11 July 2012. The prominent <I>Not to be Moved</I> sign on the front cab does not indicate a faulty set but that the train's water tanks are being replenished by station staff before it leaves as the 1203hrs departure for Inverness. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/07/2012]](/images/39000/39889.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Looking north from the station approach bridge at Kyle in July 2012 it appeared at first as if the signal box was surrounded by scaffolding. In fact there was just an empty space inside the poles and planks as it has been removed by the <I>Friends of the Kyle Line</I> for restoration. [See image 26328] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/07/2012]](/images/40000/40781.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Kyle signalbox on 24 April 2013. It has been renovated and will re-open incorporating a model railway and holiday accommodation. [See image 26348] <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 24/04/2013]](/images/42000/42909.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Nearing journey's end on the Kyle line, a train passing Garnmore on 25 April 2013.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 25/04/2013]](/images/44000/44296.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Eastbound 158.709 approaching Duncraig in 2013. The station building was beautifully restored.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 25/04/2013]](/images/53000/53807.jpg "Duncraig")
![In a ceremony at Plockton station a plaque was unveiled by Highlands MSP Jean Urquhart to mark the station being 'adopted' by a committee of pupils from Plockton High School. - see news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/04/2013]](/images/4000/4214.jpg "Plockton")
![Celebrations at Plockton station on 26 April 2013 in connection with the adoption of the station by pupils of nearby Plockton High School - see adjacent news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/04/2013]](/images/10000/10676.jpg "Plockton")
![<i>Great Britain VI</i> approaching Portnacloich west of Duirinish on 26 April behind 45407.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42900.jpg "Duirinish")
![Friday the 26th of April brought heavy frequent showers of sleet and rain to the Highlands. Here the sun makes a rare appearance as Black 5 no 45407 hauls the <I>Great Britain VI</I> west of Duirinish on the way to Kyle of Lochalsh, with Loch Kishorn in the background. <br><br>[John Gray 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42906.jpg "Duirinish")
![The Royal Scotsman leaves Kyle passing the recently renovated signalbox (museum and holiday accommodation).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/04/2013]](/images/43000/43306.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![The class 158 unit working the 09.00 service from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh skirts the harbour at Plockton on 20 June as it nears the end of its journey.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/06/2013]](/images/43000/43502.jpg "Plockton")
![View over Plockton station towards Kyle of Lochalsh in June 2013 showing the improvements to the platform surface since the adoption of the station by Plockton High School. [See image 26277] <br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/06/2013]](/images/43000/43532.jpg "Plockton")
![Some of the exhibits in the Friends of the Kyle Line museum at Kyle of Lochalsh Station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 12/05/2016]](/images/55000/55204.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![As the PS Waverley tied up at the Railway Pier, Kyle on June 2 2016 there was a nowadays very rare opportunity to take the few steps between platform end and ship’s gangway. She has here just returned from a cruise advertised as being or Portree and Gairloch, but which got slightly 'blown off course’, turning back at Raasay for Eigg and Rum. With the added drama of an impromptu Coastguard Helicopter exercise off Rum, winching a man down onto the deck!<br><br>[Mark Wringe 02/06/2016]](/images/55000/55373.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
![Just arrived at Kyle as the 17.54 from Inverness, 158703 is dwarfed by a shipload of turbine blades about to be trucked to a wind farm in Glenmoriston. The Vectis Osprey is carrying 12 blades, each of them, at 51.7 metres, longer than the 158 unit. In other news, it is possible, but not advisable, to drive a car onto the platform at Kyle.<br><br>[Mark Wringe 12/06/2016]](/images/55000/55434.jpg "Kyle of Lochalsh")
