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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 ]
Fersit Halt railway station named after the nearby hamlet of Fersit (Scottish Gaelic: Fearsaid Mhòr), was situated close to Tulloch railway station in Lochaber, Highland council area, Scotland. Fersit was a remote rural temporary private halt at the north end of Loch Treig where workers were housed who worked on the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme.
Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway: 1925 1977 3 ft (914 mm) Fort William, Scotland 25 miles (40 km) long railway used in the construction of the 15 miles (24 km) long tunnel of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme. Nuttall Dover Sewer contract: 1996 1998 2 ft (610 mm) Dover, England Construction railway for a one-mile long interception sewer tunnel.
Fersit (Scottish Gaelic: Fearsaid Mhòr) is a hamlet close to Tulloch railway station in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland council area. The River Treig, the outlet of Loch Treig, runs past Fersit. Fersit had a small station on the West Highland Line, known as Fersit Halt.
Mallaig railway station is a railway station serving the ferry port of Mallaig, Lochaber, in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is a terminus on the West Highland Line, 41 miles (66 km) by rail from Fort William and 164 miles (264 km) from Glasgow Queen Street. [4]
Lochaber (/ l ɒ x ˈ ɑː b ər / lokh-AH-bər; Scottish Gaelic: Loch Abar) is a name applied to a part of the Scottish Highlands.Historically, it was a provincial lordship consisting of the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig.
It was later renamed The Lochaber. The Jacobite at Fort William station In 1995 following the privatisation of British Rail , the operating licence for the West Highlander trains was granted to West Coast Railways (WCR), and they began operating the service that summer under the new name of The Jacobite (after the historic Jacobite political ...
Mallaig has extensive distance-learning facilities, allowing the local population access to all forms of education from leisure classes to university degrees through Lochaber College and the UHI Millennium Institute. The college is one of the most successful of its kind in Britain, with over 8 per cent of the local population accessing its ...