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2 unusual facts about Kyle of Lochalsh


BUTEC

The main logistics and administrative centre is the Shore Support Base, at Kyle of Lochalsh.

Highland Railway Loch Class

These were needed primarily for the increased traffic on the Kyle line where they were the heaviest locomotives permitted.


Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway

In 1895 the West Highlands proposed building a line from Fort William to Mallaig, the Highland objecting as it would compete with their line to Strome Ferry and its planned extension to Kyle of Lochalsh on journeys to Skye.

Loch Long One Design

They have been seen as far afield as Kyle of Lochalsh, Falmouth and even across the Atlantic; at least one was exported to the USA, and another was transported to Brazil by the artist Simon Starling and features as a piece of installation art!

Shiel Bridge

The A87 road passes through the village, continuing on along the north coast of Loch Duich, passing Dornie, Nostie and Kirkton on to Kyle of Lochalsh.


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Kyle of Lochalsh Line

In the episode of Great Railway Journeys of the World "Confessions of a Trainspotter" (1980), Michael Palin travels from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh and returns with the railway station's sign.

Skye and Lochalsh

The Skye and Lochalsh District Council coat of arms, granted by Lord Lyon King of Arms in 1987, featured a wavy blue fess across the centre of the shield for the Kyle of Lochalsh.