28/07/2026
Where the railway meets the sea - Kyle really is the end of the line, and what a line it is! Some fun facts
🚂The final 10 miles of the line, completed in 1897, was the most expensive stretch of railway in Britain at the time
🚂 In 1883 a riot erupted in Stromeferry when fishermen tried to shop the unloading of fish on a Sunday
🚂 The Kyle Line was threatened with closure twice – once in the 1960s following the Beeching Report, and again during the 1970s. Local campaigning helped overturn the closure decision in 1974
🚂 The ‘Skye Bogie’ was a steam locomotive specially designed to handle Kyle Line’s steep hills and sharp curves. The last one was scrapped in 1930 as trains became too heavy for them to pull
🚂 The line now carries more than 100,000 passenger journeys a year.
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