With a typical Highland backdrop, 156500 arrives into Rannoch station with the 06.03 Mallaig to Glasgow Queen Street. I deliberately chose to include the wartime style corrugated iron hut off the platform end,. There are a number of these scattered about on this section of line that I suspect contains various maintenance equipment. Obviously, they are of this utilitarian but very practical design to withstand the rigours of the extreme winter weather experienced at locations such as this at just over a thousand feet above sea level. Also, notice the large RETB stop boards indicating a change of section controlled by the signalling Centre at Banavie just west of Fort William.
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