"TerryJ" <jonestl@breathe.com> wrote in message news:f1d7c7db-bfbf-4006-9949-b54ea72c5dc0@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... | In a few weeks I intend to go to jog and back. | A85 glen orchy to the coast then up the coast to fort william by A828 | and A82 ? | The road from Ballachulish (sp?) to Fort William scares the caca out of me. It's one of the few places I'd understand if folk wanted to
On Mar 24, 4:37 pm, "Jonathan Morton" <jonat...@jonathanmortonbutignorethisbit.co.uk> wrote: It's all the more surprising in that the service was always Oban-Ballachulish - i.e. entailing a reversal at Connel. I think it was always operated - at least in later years - on a push-pull basis. I don't think so. Trains on the branch were always loco hauled AFAIK, latterly by Class 27 diesels
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:19:43 +0000, Joyce Whitchurch <joyce.whitchurch@btinternet.com> wrote: A visitor to my World of Transport Eclectica - <http://www.joyce.whitchurch.btinternet.co.uk/> - asks where he can find a track layout for Connel Ferry station in its glory days, presumably when the Ballachulish branch was still open. Can anyone here oblige? TIA What about looking at
"Railsigns.co.uk" <nospam@railsigns.co.uk> wrote in message news:a70c0993-12ee-456d-b246-36eac9f35326@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com... On Mar 24, 3:47 pm, "Jonathan Morton" <jonat...@jonathanmortonbutignorethisbit.co.uk> wrote: I am sure it was a genuinely triangular junction, since if you drive that way from the Rare Breeds Park (on the back route from the south, avoiding Oban) you
"Railsigns.co.uk" <nospam@railsigns.co.uk> wrote in message news:0da403da-cf24-4d67-b64e-9a10e510b72b@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... On Mar 24, 3:19 pm, Joyce Whitchurch <joyce.whitchu...@btinternet.com> wrote Not quite old enough to remember the Ballachulish branch line Same here. I travelled by car over the bridge when the railway was still open - the roadway was vbery narrow
