- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: David St John Thomas; 2nd Revised edition edition (29 Mar 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0946537488
- ISBN-13: 978-0946537488
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.4 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 956,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The railway to Skye between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh has a fascinating and noble past. The narrative in this volume begins in the days when feudal overlords fought like fury to keep the railways out of the glens, and ends with the line's devoted public fighting just as determinedly to prevent its closure.
Excerpted from The Skye Railway by John Thomas and John Farrington. Copyright © 1990. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
"The Fate of 'Ferret': On 5 October Andrew Dougall reported to the Highland board that 'Mr George Smith of 14 Brunswick Square, London through Messrs Greig & Sons the company's shipbrokers, had applied for a charter of 'Ferret' for six months from 5th instant at 270 per month for a yachting expedition in the Mediterranean'. Mr Smith's wife, it appeared, was an invalid and her doctor had recommended a cruise. If anybody at Inverness saw something incongruous in 'Ferret' in the role of a private yacht he kept his opinion to himself...."
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