How the small-but-mighty midges stopped a train
They have cut short many a walk, the midges, but did you know that they also stopped a train? An actual passenger train! It was the north-bound express engine pulling ten carriages, intending to complete its usual route through Ross-shire and Sutherland before ending up in Caithness. But, this Summer’s day in 1897, while the train attempted an incline. . .
The real story here is the time travelling train as the construction of the castle didn’t begin until 1906 some nine years later…
Hi Paul, you’re absolutely right, well spotted. It’s now fixed.