Lost Lines: The impossible proposals which knocked the Highland railways off track [Press and Journal]



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Date: 15/09/2020

There were no shortage of bold plans devised to improve the quality of Highland railways during the Victorian era.


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Lost Lines: The 'impossible proposals which knocked the Highland railways off track | Press and Journal

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The philosophy of stubborn bureaucrats offered a template for "how not to build a railway" in some parts of the Highlands.

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Book:A Quite Impossible Proposal: How not to Build a Railway - Andrew Drummond

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