Britain’s last turntable car ferry has been saved thanks to a £60,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund.
The ferry plies between Kyleshea on the Isle of Skye and Glenelg in Wester Ross – the traditional route once used for swimming cattle across to the mainland.
The Big Lottery Fund’s Scotland director, Dharmendra Kanani, said: “There is romance here but there is also tremendous practical potential and an enthusiasm to make the most of it.”
“Rather than simply preserving the ferry as an intriguing historical novelty, the community sees it as a terrific asset they can develop, not just for their own direct needs to get around, but as an untapped tourism magnet which can act as an economic driver for the area. We are delighted to back them.”
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