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Forres St. Lawrence is the local cricket club. [42] They are full members in both senior and reserve competitions in the area. [43] Forres Harriers is the local running club with around 80 members. [44] The most famous Harrier is Don Ritchie who at one time held 14 world best times for ultra distance running events ranging from 50 km to 200 km ...
Forres was chosen as the junction for the new mainline south, since it was the half-way point on the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction Railway between Inverness and Keith. Keith was also an important railway junction and the point where the line joined the GNSR and branches to the coast and Strathspey.
The Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway (I&AJR) was a railway company in Scotland, created to connect other railways and complete the route between Inverness and Aberdeen. The Inverness and Nairn Railway had opened to the public on 7 November 1855 and the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) was building from Aberdeen to Keith .
The first tolbooth in Forres was completed in the mid-16th century. [2] It was primarily used as a prison, but was in a ruinous condition by 1655. Extensive repairs were carried out in the 1670s and the late 1690s. A bell was installed in 1708 and a clock was installed in 1711. [3] The foundation stone for the current structure was laid in 1838.
Joseph Mitchell was born on 3 November 1803 in Forres, the son of John Mitchell, a civil engineer. [1] The family moved to Inverness in 1810 where Mitchell attended Inverness Royal Academy. He continued his studies in Aberdeen. In 1820 he went to work on the construction of the Caledonian Canal under an apprenticeship to Thomas Telford.
The Findhorn Viaduct is a railway bridge near Forres in Moray, Scotland. Built for the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction Railway between 1856 and 1858 by Joseph Mitchell, with ironwork by William Fairbairn & Sons of Manchester, [1] the viaduct carries the railway line over the River Findhorn [2] approximately 1.7 km (1.1 mi) west of the town of Forres.
Opened in 2017 by Network Rail on the line from Inverness to Aberdeen, this station replaced an earlier one which closed at the same time. View north east towards Kinloss and Aberdeen. The first Forres station (1858-1863, see NJ0359 : Forres 1st railway station (site), Moray, 2017) was located beyond the platforms.
Aberdeen: 2004–2006: Forres Mechanics: 2006–2008 ... Paterson's biography "Confessions of a Highland Hero" co-written with former Grampian ... Forres Mechanics ...