60091 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 While on weeks holiday I spent 30mins at Kyle of Lochalsh photographing the station and it's surroundings. Hopefully they might be of some use to a modern image modeller researching the station or the Kyle Line in general. Apart from Class 158s, the only other activity was transfer of a very large consignment of timber. Sadly this was being brought to the Kyle by lorry to be taken out by boat. [ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted July 17, 2014 Author Share Posted July 17, 2014 Here are a few more shots of details around the station including the impressive view currently to be had from the platform... The view from the platform! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-e Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 3rd picture in your 1st post seems to show the train well loaded with passengers. The bottom picture again 1st post, I have one from 30th June 1986 from a similar angle for comparison. I'm sure the ballast laying in the 2nd track next to the wagon nearest the loco is the same ballast some 28 years later..... Cheers Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted July 17, 2014 Author Share Posted July 17, 2014 3rd picture in your 1st post seems to show the train well loaded with passengers. The bottom picture again 1st post, I have one from 30th June 1986 from a similar angle for comparison. I'm sure the ballast laying in the 2nd track next to the wagon nearest the loco is the same ballast some 28 years later..... 37417.jpg Cheers Steve Much more interesting times with the 37/4s in charge. I was lucky enough to first visit the Kyle by rail in September 88 just before Sprinters took over. Sad to see the re-laid freight siding buried under a pile of timber, all delivered by lorry....although to be fair I think it was only a short haul from nearby Glen Shiel? The lower floor of the signal box is now a bunk house or B+B - not sure which, and there's a model railway upstairs. It depicts the Kyle Line through the years and IIRC is operated by the Friends of the line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eddie reffin Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Aargh! The jinx that is 158708! Shame you couldn't have been there on a better day as it is nice in the sunshine. Not a huge fan of driving the Kyle line, far prefer going to Wick even though is longer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim49 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Ach Eddie, just because you're privileged enough to be driving these lines, you don't have to make the rest of us jealous! Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Aargh! The jinx that is 158708! Shame you couldn't have been there on a better day as it is nice in the sunshine. Not a huge fan of driving the Kyle line, far prefer going to Wick even though is longer. Hi Eddie We were staying at Plockton on a walking/climbing holiday. If the weather's good we're up in the hills.... if it's bad then it's usually a quick trip to Kyle, which means I never get to see it in good weather! If you've a spare 158 anywhere around Inverness, that mid day arrival could do with a few extra seats at this time of year . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusDe Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 My memories of Kyle are from the 60s/70s and our family annual return "home" to Lewis for 4 weeks or so every summer. Mostly Kyle would be viewed from the Loch Seaforth, having got the Mallaig train from Glasgow, but there were times we'd go via relatives in Inverness, etc, so this 10-12yo boy had many spells of exploring the pier at Kyle, the station and goods yard bustling with activity. I don't really remember much steam, but mostly type2s. From the same era, my favourite layout at Model Rail in Glasgow each year was the 0 gauge Kyle layout. My 6' x 4' layout at the time was Kyle(ish) ..... well, it had a island platform and a imaginary bridge to Skye for the continuous run oval! Angus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eddie reffin Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Spare sets! We are lucky to get the ones we have got! Jim, I know how lucky I am to be driving up here. Travelled down yesterday to Perth and you couldn't ask for a better office window. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
airighdrishaig Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 60091, Angus De and all, thanks for all this. I went to Kyle on 29th May this year for the Waverley cruise next day, whatever 158 it was it got me there on time. My father had just been admitted to a nursing home that week(he has since died and been buried). Naturally I thought of my first visit in 1959, and my father guiding me over the the Lochinvar on to the Loch Toscaig. It's great that we can still go to Kyle by train but for some of us the combination of family and transport memories is bitter-sweetly haunting. If a model can evoke some of that.... On a more mundane level, there were a couple of lines curving away to the south of the main pier, cut short by the early 70s. Did they serve the fishery pier, or did they have a military purpose? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim49 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I have a map of Kyle, dated about 1950, showing 2 lines going off southwards to the "Fishing Pier". I had always thought that there were at least half a dozen sidings in that area but from this map there would not have been enough room to take them. PM me if you would like a copy HTH Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Alder Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Here is a link to a 1903 OS 25" map of the area, before the sidings to the Fishing Pier were added. http://maps.nls.uk/view/82886742 HTH. PS- Use the mouse wheel to expand the image. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Being in the trade, I recently saw an ad for driver at Kyle. I was unaware there were on train staff based here ! How many of you are there at Kyle ?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
airighdrishaig Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Wonder whether anyone with a detailed knowledge of Kyle pier can help here. This is Captain Colin Gordon, of MacBrayne's Loch Toscaig. My wife is the girl on his left (as she was about 1961) and the rest are mostly members of her family. I think this was taken at the western end of the platform. Railway lines can be glimpsed behind Capt Gordon's legs. I am trying to work out whether this was taken on the arrival of the Loch Toscaig, about 9am, or before her departure which I think was 2.45pm. The question is does anyone recognise the lamppost on the left. I have been trying to find it in various photos without success. Knowing where it was would make it easier to decide where the shadows were going. I thought possibly a modeller of this period might know, appreciate the thread is about 2014 but felt sure no one with an interest in Kyle-based transport would object. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eddie reffin Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 There are 4 qualified drivers and one in training at Kyle just now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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