Forty Miles Gone: Scotland's Deadliest Railway Winter

January 28th, 1906. Helmsdale Station, Scotland. Stationmaster Duncan Macrae watches the impossible unfold: the 11:30 pm night mail train from Wick is three hours late and lost. Forty miles of the Far North Line, a crucial railway, has vanished under deep snow, and telegraph lines went dead at midnight. This blizzard has created a serious problem for the steam locomotive and its precious postal train, highlighting the perils of train travel in a Scottish winter. Subscribe for untold survival stories.