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The Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge industrial railway. It was a relatively long line, built for the construction and subsequent maintenance of a 15-mile-long (24-kilometre) tunnel from Loch Treig to a factory near Fort William in Scotland . [ 1 ]
The Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway was built to facilitate construction and this ran into the Fersit sidings area and ran as far as the Loch Laggan dam works. [6] The railway over bridge at Firsit. Loch Treig dam raised the level of the loch and it serves as the principal reservoir of the whole Lochaber hydroelectric scheme.
Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway: 1925 1977 3 ft (914 mm) Fort William, Scotland ... Equipment depot of Roads Reconstruction (1934) Ltd. where many narrow-gauge ...
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In fact the NBR network was designated for modernisation under a plan of 1955; the modernisation in fact became a scheme to electrify the passenger train operation, and this became effective in 1960. Most of the L&DR section closed, although a number of short sections were retained to give continued access to industrial sites.
The GD&HR had to wait until the following season to start a serious train-and-steamer operation. [2] They also suffered a rebuff in Helensburgh, where the pier was some distance from the railway station; attempts to obtain agreement to a railway connection to the pier were consistently resisted by the people of Helensburgh. [2] [4]
It was the Alford Valley Railway, backed by the GNoSR, that was authorised by Parliament in the Alford Valley Railway Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. xl), on 23 June 1856. [3] The Great North of Scotland Railway would subscribe £15,000 of the necessary capital, and would work the line.
The Caledonian Railway offered considerable extra traffic, by connecting to the Wishaw and Coltness line at Garriongill, and continuing to Glasgow over it and the GG&CR. As the Caledonian line was to be standard gauge (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm)), this was obviously contingent on those railways changing their gauge to suit. In fact all the ...