Curated By Clive Smith
Dingwall Station 1982
A wonderful picture of Dingwall station taken by Nick in 1982. There's a lot to take in least of all the relatively new 1978 Ford Cortina Mark 4 Estate parked on the platform. On the far right of the picture you can just make out the edge of a Royal Mail van. Also present are Caledonian Railway Blue totem station signs. Beyond the four wheeled wooden parcels trolley is a shop selling tobacco and cigarettes. Finally at the very end is the Shunters' Bar where I had a heavy session also in 1982 during the Young Persons' Railcard free ticket offer. I believe there is still a bar there but now called Mallards.
The Royal Mail vans would take mail and parcels off the first trains from Inverness. Other vehicles would collect the day's newspapers printed in Glasgow such as the Scottish versions of the nationals plus the likes of the Scotsman, Herald and Daily Record. These would have been transferred at Inverness from the overnight portioned train from Glasgow and Edinburgh. If you want a printed national newspaper in the Highlands with your breakfast then forget it. Always lunchtime. A feature of the Highlands in the 1980s was the Royal Mail postbus which would operate from stations like Achnasheen and Lairg to provide public transport connections to the Highlands' more remote communities.
Dingwall Station 1982
A wonderful picture of Dingwall station taken by Nick in 1982. There's a lot to take in least of all the relatively new 1978 Ford Cortina Mark 4 Estate parked on the platform. On the far right of the picture you can just make out the edge of a Royal Mail van. Also present are Caledonian Railway Blue totem station signs. Beyond the four wheeled wooden parcels trolley is a shop selling tobacco and cigarettes. Finally at the very end is the Shunters' Bar where I had a heavy session also in 1982 during the Young Persons' Railcard free ticket offer. I believe there is still a bar there but now called Mallards.
The Royal Mail vans would take mail and parcels off the first trains from Inverness. Other vehicles would collect the day's newspapers printed in Glasgow such as the Scottish versions of the nationals plus the likes of the Scotsman, Herald and Daily Record. These would have been transferred at Inverness from the overnight portioned train from Glasgow and Edinburgh. If you want a printed national newspaper in the Highlands with your breakfast then forget it. Always lunchtime. A feature of the Highlands in the 1980s was the Royal Mail postbus which would operate from stations like Achnasheen and Lairg to provide public transport connections to the Highlands' more remote communities.