The Prince of Rannoch Moor

'The Prince of Rannoch Moor'
Signed Limited Edition print of 650
Published 1998
Image Size 17" x 23"
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Rannoch Moor is an expanse of around 50 square miles of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Scotland, where it extends from and into westerly Perth and Kinross, northerly Lochaber,
and the area of Highland Scotland toward its south-west, northern Argyll and Bute.
Peat deposits pose major difficulties to builders of roads and railways. When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor,
its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes. Corrour railway station,
the UK's highest, and one of its most remote being 10 miles (16 km) from the nearest public road, is located on this section of the line at 1,339 feet (408 m).
The line takes gentle curves totalling 23 miles (37 km) across the moorland.
The A82 road crosses western Rannoch Moor on its way to Glen Coe and Fort William.