Heritage railways · Scottish Islands
Wester Pipe Railway
Wester Pipe Railway in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
Ingeborg Lechner and Robert Vucsina — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Spring – autumn
About
Wester Pipe Railway is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Wester Pipe Railway is a narrow gauge railway that runs from Hastigrow on the B876 road to Westerloch on the A99, all within Caithness. The line is double track for most of the route and uses Metre gauge. It is used to transport pipeline segments to the sea. It is the second northernmost railway in the United Kingdom with the first being the spur to Thurso on the Far North Line.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 58.5080, -3.1350
Sources
- wikidata: Q108692638 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Wester Pipe Railway (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Wester Pipe Railway?
- Wester Pipe Railway is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 58.5080°, -3.1350°.