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Old Photograph Embo Scotland
Old photograph of the railway station in Embo located 2 miles North of Dornoch, Scotland. From 1902 until 1960 there ran a branch line linking Dornoch with the main railway line at The Mound. This light railway went through several settlements along the route including the village of Embo. In 1902 Embo was a thriving fishing village and the railway proved to be a boon to the fishwives who could follow the migrating herring around the East coast, gutting and packing the fish. As with the entire region of East Sutherland, the end of the 19th century and the collapse of the fishing industry coincided with the decline of Gaelic as the majority language of the people. Embo is informally twinned with Kaunakakai on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.
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