ScotRail withdraws stops at Altnabreac following station access challenges [John O Groat Journal]
Date: 11/11/2023
ScotRail is advising customers that from tomorrow (Nov 12) services on the Far North Line will temporarily not call at Altnabreac station.
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ScotRail withdraws stops at Altnabreac following station access challenges
John O Groat Journal
ScotRail is advising customers that from tomorrow (Nov 12) services on the Far North Line will temporarily not call at Altnabreac station.
Stisean Allt nam Breac dinte
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Chaidh Stisean-rile Allt nam Breac ann an Gallaibh a dhnadh do luchd-siubhail gu h-eadar-amail.
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Hard to believe this is the same viewpoint as the shot taken 41 years ago see image [[29053]]. A 'Friends of the Far North Line' outing is about to escape the Altnabreac midges by jumping on the 13.55 departure for Thurso and Wick on 26th August 2015. In the left foreground is former Invergordon signalman Iain Macdonald (50 years’ service on the railway), on the far right is Mike Lunan (formerly Chair of the Rail Passengers Committee Scotland), while the man in the red anorak is leading Highland rail activist Richard Ardern.
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
26/08/2015 David Spaven
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
26/08/2015 David Spaven
Hunters, shooters and fishers offload gear from an Inverness-Wick train at Altnabreac in the summer of 1971, doubtless heading for the up-market Lochdhu Hotel a mile across the moor. The photographer camped overnight at this isolated station, and in the evening wandered over the then treeless expanse (like something out of Dr Zhivago) to the hotel, to find himself in a cocktail bar full of elaborately attired ladies and gentlemen...
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
//1971 David Spaven
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
//1971 David Spaven
Altnabreac in its splendid isolation. Looking south towards Forsinard in 1994. The water tank still exists behind the photographer.
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
//1994 Ewan Crawford
Location: Altnabreac
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
//1994 Ewan Crawford
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