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near to Mosstodloch, Moray, Scotland
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Ena Baxter's Heilan' Coos
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Fochabers Bypass Roadworks, Midsummer 2010 (7)
At long last, Fochabers and the neighbouring village of Mosstodloch are to get a bypass. There used to be a railway overbridge here, though the railway was closed half a century ago. Note how red the soil is; this is till from the last Ice... (more)
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Approximate site of former Fochabers Town station, 1997
View eastward, on the A96 approaching the Spey Bridge. Fochabers Town station, the terminus of the ex-Highland Railway branch from Orbliston Junction, had been on the right: it was closed to passengers from 14/9/31 but the branch survived... (more)
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Baxter's Visitor Centre
Old style buildings containing shops selling whisky, wine and fine Baxter's foods to the tourists.
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Fochabers Town railway station (site), Moray
Opened in 1893 by the Highland Railway as the terminus of its short branch line from Orbliston Junction, this station closed to passengers in 1931. The line remained open as far as the goods yard into the 1960s.
View north west towards... (more)
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Retail units at Baxters Visitor Centre, Fochabers
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River Spey in Spate (7)
Looking from the old bridge across the brown muddy spate to the houses, relatively secure on the top of a low cliff carved out by the river. (The previous images in this series are in NJ3459)
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Baxter's building seen from the A96
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Stynie Road (B9015), Mosstodloch
Looking south-eastward.
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Minor road, Mosstodloch
Turn left for Baxter's Highland Village.
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The Restaurant at Baxters Highland Village
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Old Red Sandstone
The red cliff is Fochabers Sandstone, a sedimentary rock formed approximately 383 to 393 million years ago in the Devonian Period by rivers in an arid environment when what is now Scotland was at the latitude of the present Kalahari Desert.
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