Operational route to be opened to private drivers?

[pfx]

Take your car for a spin on the Inverness to Kyle line. Maybe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16441094

 

[masontaylor]

Take your car for a spin on the Inverness to Kyle line. Maybe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16441094

Tempting! (Even more so if a ferry service were to run from Strome again....) Very lucky that the railway itself escaped damage and remained operational - unlike some of the Scottish lines further south, where services were suspended for quite some time to allow crews to go out and clear assorted debris from the track, and where, even more freakily, a stationary plane at Edinburgh Turnhouse was hit by an airbourne bus shelter.

Since it's single track, there'll presumably still be quite some delay with a traffic light system.

 

[pfx]

Interesting signalling puzzle. How do radio tokens work when the line shares the with a road? On second thoughts, let's not go there.

 

[masontaylor]

Manual override? It's not as if the line's that busy, anyway: only four trains a day in each direction except for Sundays, when it's just the one.

 

[pfx]

They could put in a set of four temporary traffic lights, 2 to cover the rail line each way. I wonder how that would work with the rule book or if it's even a unique situation?

As you say though, it's a quiet line so not likely much of an issue.