if adopted Port Kirkaig should be pronounced just as "Currig"- the gaels loose alot in the translation

Hi Russ,

Foir 'Raison d'etre'....

You also need to think about the British Government thinking of the subject of rail access to ports serving the North Atlantic.

Chacking back there were real concerns about how Britain would exist without additional rail access and deep water ports on the Atlantinc coast in the event of a European War.

Looking back at the various sooureces for reports the Irish situation was also a concern.

This caused the government to be interested in routes to the North Atlantic to areas where the Irish situation was minimalised.

Amazing what you can find in the documents - once you can actually get to read them!

Thanks

Fortunately we do not have to build all the line between ( would that we had the space and height - a two thousand foot mountain would be 13ft high). It sounds an interesting project if you can imagine it you can bring it to life.

Don

of all the HR proposals I think the Ullapool one was most likely (of the ones that didnt actually get built) - but I still think accessing there from Garve would have some insurmountable problems, not least the big drop/climb at Braemore/Corrieshalloch Gorge area.

My suggested route here could have gone up the much more forgiving glen oykel, and the story will go that the railway and its backers offered a new purpose built port, a small settlement around which would then have grown.

in addition a shorter crossing to Stornaway possibly half an hour or 45 mins less than from Ullapool?

Got the 2 Apa boxes from Ikea today, so its now time to plan out just what will fit into them!

So comparable with Lickey Bank then, but thats only 2 miles and relatively straight- from knowing the geography in that area I think the hill would be longer and curvature more severe! If I remember the road is 1 in 10 or 1 in 9 in places.