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Dingwall and Skye Railway, the Glossary

Index Dingwall and Skye Railway

The Dingwall and Skye Railway was authorised on 5 July 1865 with the aim of providing a route to Skye and the Hebrides.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: Beeching cuts, Caledonian MacBrayne, Dingwall railway station, Francis Marindin, Garve and Ullapool Railway, Garve railway station, Glasgow, Hebrides, Highland Railway, History of the Far North of Scotland Railway Line, Inverness, Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, Isle of Lewis, Isle of Skye, Kyle of Lochalsh line, Landslide, Loch Carron, Loch Kishorn, Oil platform, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Spa town, Strathpeffer, Stromeferry, Stromeferry railway station, Ullapool, West Highland Railway.

  2. Highland Railway
  3. Railway companies disestablished in 1880
  4. Railway companies established in 1865
  5. Railway lines opened in 1870

Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.

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Caledonian MacBrayne

Caledonian MacBrayne (Caledonian Mac a' Bhriuthainn), in short form CalMac, is the trade name of CalMac Ferries Ltd, the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries to the west coast of Scotland, serving ports on the mainland and 22 of the major islands. It is a subsidiary of holding company David MacBrayne, which is owned by the Scottish Government.

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Dingwall railway station

Dingwall railway station serves Dingwall, Scotland.

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Francis Marindin

Colonel Sir Francis Arthur Marindin, KCMG (1 May 1838 – 21 April 1900) served with the Royal Engineers and was a key figure in the early development of association football.

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Garve and Ullapool Railway

The Garve and Ullapool Railway was one of several branch railway-lines proposed for the North-West Highlands of Scotland, in the 1880s and 1890s. Dingwall and Skye Railway and Garve and Ullapool Railway are early Scottish railway companies.

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Garve railway station

Garve railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Garve in the north of Scotland.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Hebrides

The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Southern isles) are an archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland.

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Highland Railway

The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating north of Perth railway station in Scotland and serving the farthest north of Britain. Dingwall and Skye Railway and Highland Railway are railway companies established in 1865.

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History of the Far North of Scotland Railway Line

The Far North Line was built in several stages through sparsely populated and undulating terrain.

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Inverness

Inverness (Innerness; from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000.

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Inverness and Ross-shire Railway

The Inverness and Ross-shire Railway was a Scottish railway company formed in 1860 to build a line from Inverness to Invergordon. Dingwall and Skye Railway and Inverness and Ross-shire Railway are early Scottish railway companies and Highland Railway.

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Isle of Lewis

The Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis (Leòdhas) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.

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Isle of Skye

The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Kyle of Lochalsh line

The Kyle of Lochalsh line is a primarily single-track railway line in the Scottish Highlands, from to.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Loch Carron

Loch Carron (Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Carrann") is a sea loch on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, which separates the Lochalsh peninsula from the Applecross peninsula, and from the Stromeferry headland east of Loch Kishorn.

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Loch Kishorn

Loch Kishorn (Ciseòrn) is a sea loch in the north-west Highlands of Scotland.

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Oil platform

An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Spa town

A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring).

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Strathpeffer

Strathpeffer (Srath Pheofhair) is a village and spa town in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland, with a population of 1,469.

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Stromeferry

Stromeferry (Port an t-Sròim) is a village, located on the south shore of the west coast sea loch, Loch Carron, in western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

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Stromeferry railway station

Stromeferry railway station is a station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Stromeferry in the Highlands, northern Scotland.

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Ullapool

Ullapool (Ulapul) is a village and port located in Northern Scotland.

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West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway was a railway company that constructed a railway line from Craigendoran (on the River Clyde west of Glasgow, Scotland) to Fort William and Mallaig.

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See also

Highland Railway

Railway companies disestablished in 1880

Railway companies established in 1865

Railway lines opened in 1870

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingwall_and_Skye_Railway