13 May 2024, Starts: 19:30

The Highland Railway Besieged

Online talk by John McGregor

Organised by Fortrose & Rosemarkie Local History Group. Meetings are free to members, and membership costs £5 / year. To join, or arrange to come as a visitor, contact fortroserosemarkiehistory@gmail.com

Formed by amalgamation of the early Inverness companies, the Highland Railway was unchallenged into the 1880s. Thereafter the Company faced repeated attack but preserved a precarious independence until gathered into the inter-War London, Midland & Scottish Group (1923). Had their regional monopoly been breached, would the Highlands and Islands have benefitted? On that question historians remain divided.