The Friends of the Far North Line
Cairdean Na Loine Tuath
the campaign group for rail north of
Inverness - lobbying for improved services for the local user, tourist and freight
operator
As readers will be well aware, the Far North Line reached its termini at Thurso and Wick on 28 July 1874.
FoFNL had planned a joint celebration with the Highland Railway Society, the Scottish Association for Public Transport and HITRANS for Saturday 27 July in Wick Station, with the unveiling of a plaque and an exhibition about the railway. Unfortunately ScotRail took the decision to reduce the timetable to avoid the need to ask staff to work overtime and rest days during a period of pay negotiations. This caused the abandonment of the plan for that day.
A plaque will be unveiled at some point this year and the exhibition has taken on a different format. It will now be held for four days, 16th-19th October, in the North Coast Visitor Centre in Thurso. In some ways this is a better result, and we hope that many people will drop in to have a look.