Fortrose Branch

Fortrose Branch
Overview
LocaleScotland
Dates of operation1 February 1894–31 December 1922
SuccessorLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm)
Length7+34 mi (12.5 km)
Route map

Fortrose
Avoch
Rosehaugh Halt
(private station)
Munlochy
Allangrange
Redcastle
Muir of Ord

The Fortrose Branch, also known as the Black Isle Railway, was a railway branch line serving Fortrose in the Black Isle, in the north of Scotland. It was built by the Highland Railway as a tactical measure to exclude a rival railway company and to move the locals from Fortrose onwards to other destinations.

It opened in 1894, making a junction with the Far North Railway Line at Muir of Ord. Serving an agricultural and coastal area, it was never commercially successful and in 1951 the passenger service was withdrawn. A goods train service continued, but it too closed in 1960. There is now no railway use of the former line.