Proposal to covert Kyle line to tramway

[AndrewE]

A bidirectional single track tramway on a long distance road? Sounds very scary. How long is the "rockfall section" where road and rail would share and how fast would the tram-trains be running? There's also the problem of a single track railway not being wide enough for a decent highway.

Do it like this - if a bit longer!
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Locatio..._Jamtland_County_Jamtland_and_Harjedalen.html
After stopping all the traffic initially you could release the stuff to follow the train, then open both directions when the train was clear of the shared sections.

 

[lejog]

My reading of the report is that they don't seem to considering the entire 4.5km section. I don't think it's considerably longer than the area covered by the 2012 solution.

What makes you reach that conclusion? The report in post #1 says:

The site visit identified that the delivery of geotechnical engineering works that are required to provide a full length, at grade interlaced rail and highway section, or a number of discrete interlaced rail and highway sections presents no significant engineering problems, other than the risk of rock fall and the requirement for the development of an appropriate rail and highway traffic management system.

Talk of a full length solution or a number of discrete interlaced sections suggests a total length greater than 150m to me.

 

[najaB]

Talk of a full length solution or a number of discrete interlaced sections suggests a total length greater than 150m to me.

The fact that they speak about a treadle operated signalling system says short section to me.

 

[Millisle]

It is interesting thinking back all those years that the road in the form it still has was expected to be temporary and that the carriageway would be extended over the railway solum at its anticipated closure, thus eliminating the problem. It felt a little incongruous at the time travelling over a section of new single track A road when the push in the north was all for rebuilding single track roads.
Once roads were improved and especially after the transfer in 1973 of the Lewis ferry to Ullapool the government was disposed to closure, which had been set for the end of that year, was postponed, and only definitely cancelled in 1974 after intense campaigning and the argument that it might be useful for oil industry freight, which it was briefly.