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Oil Rescues Rail: How North Sea Energy Kept Highland Railways Alive in 1976
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In January 1976, Britain’s expanding North Sea oil industry was already reshaping the nation’s railways — and nowhere was that impact clearer than in the Scottish Highlands. An article published in The Railway Magazine that month revealed how the construction of offshore drilling platforms at Loch Kishorn was generating vital freight traffic for the Inverness–Kyle…
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