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Part 5 – The Quartzite (Silica) Quarry Tramway at Ord

There was a short tramway in the quartzite quarry close to Ord which was operational in the mid-20th century. …

The Railways of Skye and Adjacent Islands – Part 5 – The Quartzite (Silica) Quarry Tramway at Ord

Part 4 – The Raasay Iron Ore Mine Railway

There is an excellent book by Laurence & Pamela Draper, which they self-published in 1990, entitled “The Raasay Iron Mine: Where Enemies Became Friends.” I picked up a copy second-hand from an online sales site. That book covers the operation on Raasay in ...

Given that you can still try other malts, have you tried any products from the Raasay distilliery?

Dereham (East Dereham) Station, Norfolk

An article in the magazine Railway Bylines, in the September 2002 edition written by Orson Carter prompted a look at the railway system in Dereham Norfolk. [1]

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/05/31/de ... n-norfolk/

Part 3 – The Skye Marble Railway

The featured image for this article is the only photograph I have been able to find of ‘Skylark’, the locomotive which for a matter of only a few years operated on the Skye Marble Railway. Further notes about the locomotive can be found in this article. An ...

Part 2 – The Talisker Distillery Tramway

The Talisker Distillery Tramway was a short 2ft-gauge tramway which opened in 1900 and closed in 1948. It ran from Carbost Pier on Loch Harport, along the Harport shore to Talisker Distillery and was used to transport materials for Talisker Distillery ...

The Highland Railway’s Fort George Branch

This short branch was established to bring a railhead closer to Fort George.

The featured image in the linked article shows Highland Railway No. 29 at Fort George Railway Station in Ardersier in charge of a train of four wheel coaches.

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In April/May 2025 we had a holiday on Skye and as part of that started finding out about the history of industrial railways on Skye and immediately adjacent islands.

The first we investigated was a line used to carry Diatomite from Loch Cuithir to Lealt on Skye the linked article below looks at ...

The Highland Railway as a Company is long-gone. Many of its routes area still in use, others have been abandoned. This thread will hopefully cover the majority of the Highland's lines. ...

H.A.Vallance notes that in the years prior to the coming of the railways to the North of Scotland there was a ...

Thank you, Glencairn.