Glenelg () is a village and civil parish in the Lochalsh area of Highland in western Scotland.

At the Kyle of Lochalsh, Palin bought the station's long metal platform sign and is seen lugging it back to London with him.

It is served by Plockton railway station, on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line.

The Rosses held what is now Easter Ross ; the Munros the small tract around Ben Wyvis, including Dingwall ; the Macleods Lewis, and, in the mainland, the district between Loch Maree and Loch Torridon ; the Macdonalds of Glengarry, Coigach, and the district between Strome Ferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, and the Mackenzies the remainder.

This river is in length ( including Lochalsh River to the outlet of Wabatongushi Lake ) and drains an area of about.

Kyle of Lochalsh ( from the Scottish Gaelic Caol Loch Aillse, " strait of the foaming loch ") is a village on the northwest coast of Scotland, 63 miles ( 100 km ) west of Inverness.

Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north-west of Scotland.

A land-based control centre of the Royal Naval BUTEC submarine range is based in Kyle of Lochalsh.

The West Highland Line is one of two railway lines which access the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland, the other being the Kyle of Lochalsh Line which connects Inverness with Kyle of Lochalsh.

* November 2 – The Highland Railway's Kyle of Lochalsh Line is completed throughout to the west coast of Scotland.

Achnashellach railway station is a railway station serving Achnashellach on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, in Wester Ross, Scotland.

' Kyle ' is also a nickname for Kyle of Lochalsh.

The Kyle of Lochalsh Line is a primarily single track railway line in the Scottish Highlands, running from Dingwall to Kyle of Lochalsh.

There is now a dedicated fleet of Class 158 units based at Inverness serving the Kyle of Lochalsh line ( also serving the Far North Line to Wick and Thurso and Aberdeen to Inverness Line to Aberdeen ).

It is located just south of the junction of the Far North Line and the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, and is served by First ScotRail.

Opened on 5 November 1855 as the western terminus of the Inverness and Nairn Railway, it is now the terminus of the Highland Main Line, the Aberdeen-Inverness Line ( of which the Inverness and Nairn Railway is now a part ), the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the Far North Line.

The village of Kyleakin (; Scottish Gaelic: Caol Àcain ) is situated on the east coast of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, along the strait of Kyle Akin opposite the northwest Scottish mainland town of Kyle of Lochalsh.

Kyleakin plays host to Kyleakin Football Club, who won the Skye and Lochalsh Bagshaw league in 2009, goalkeeper Lennie Chiffers is also part of an accomplished bowls team in the village.

Uig is served by the A87 road from Portree and Kyle of Lochalsh to the south and the A855 road which runs northwards around the end of the Trotternish peninsula before also turning south to Portree.

It also serves the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, with the junction between the two lines being located within the town.

In 1885 a branch line from the Kyle of Lochalsh Line was built and Strathpeffer railway station was opened on 3 June ; the most logical route for the line to Kyle of Lochalsh was through the town, but disagreements with landowners initially prevented the railway from crossing their land.

With the construction of road and rail connections to Kyle of Lochalsh toward the end of the 19th century, various parties proposed the construction of a bridge to the island.

In the segment, Palin traveled by various trains from London to the furthest north point by rail, Kyle of Lochalsh.

A depot for transferring deliveries from rail to sea was built at Stromeferry, on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line.

It runs west from its junction with the A82 road at Invergarry (), along the north shores of Loch Garry and Loch Cluanie, then down through Glen Shiel and along Loch Duich to Kyle of Lochalsh before crossing the Skye Bridge to Kyleakin, Broadford, and Portree, before terminating at Uig on the west coast of the Isle of Skye.

Murray preached at Chesley and Lochalsh from time to time until his retirement from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1968.

Writing after a communion season at Lochalsh, Murray said, “ I think I feel most at home here and at Chesley of all the places I visit .” There had been some consideration that upon leaving the seminary, Murray might take a pastorate in the newly-formed Presbyterian Reformed Church, but the infirmity of his aged sisters at the home place necessitated his return to Ross-shire, Scotland.

Matheson became involved with the congregations at Chesley and Lochalsh, as well as the congregations in Bruce, Huron, and Elgin countries and Ontario until his death in 1957.

The Lords of Lochalsh appear at this time to have had strong claims upon the Camerons to follow them in the field.

:: Service provision at Dingwall forms part of the Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh Lines

Meanwhile the Scottish Boundary commission in 1980 originally proposed that the seat should be extended to include the Skye and Lochalsh areas, however this was overturned at a public enquiry.

( Rail passengers may also connect with this bus at on the Kyle of Lochalsh line, but the timings are not so convenient.

Michael Palin stays at the hotel in 1980, as part of his " Confessions of a Trainspotter " journey from London Euston to Kyle of Lochalsh for the BBC show Great Railway Journeys of the World.

For historical reasons, including the influence of a Scots-speaking royal court in Edinburgh, and the plantation of merchant burghs in much of the south and east, the Gàidhealtachd has been reduced massively to the present region of the Western Isles, and the North-West Highlands, Skye and Lochalsh and Argyll and Bute, with small Gaelic populations existing in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The Inverness based examples were particularly associated with the Far North Line and Kyle of Lochalsh Line, as well as operating south of Inverness on the Highland Main Line.

On 13 April 1719, Keith's men disembarked on the Highlands near Lochalsh, although the Highlanders did not join the " Little Rising " in the expected numbers ( the Spaniards carried 2000 guns to distribute ), mistrusting the enterprise and waiting for news from the south.

* Summit Lake ( Lochalsh River ), Algoma District, Ontario

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

The line selected for the trial was another remote and lightly used Scottish line: the old Highland Railway route from Dingwall westwards to Kyle of Lochalsh.

* Kyle of Lochalsh Extension ( Highland Railway ) between Stromeferry and Kyle of Lochalsh

The Highland Railway Jones L Class 4-4-0s were more commonly known as ' Skye Bogies ' due to their association with the Kyle of Lochalsh Line.