Wick and Lybster Light Railway
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wick-and-lybster-light-railway-239-6024032
title:
Wick and Lybster Light Railway
text:
The Wick and Lybster Light Railway was a light railway opened in 1903, with the intention of opening up the fishing port of Lybster, in Caithness, Scotland, to the railway network at Wick. Its construction was heavily supported financially by local government and the Treasury. It was worked by the Highland Railway. The line was never heavily used and the anticipated expansion of the fishing trade did not take place. When a modern road to the south was built in the 1930s, transits from Lybster we
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description:
Former railway line in Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_and_Lybster_Light_Railway
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2023-09-03T12:59:43Z
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