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Old Photograph Hill of Fearn Scotland
Old photograph of the railway station at Hill Of Fearn near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland. This Scottish train station is situated on the Far North Line and is also the nearest station to Balintore, Hilton and Shandwick, Portmahomack and the Nigg Bay area of Easter Ross. The railway through Fearn station is single track, the nearest passing loops being at Invergordon to the south and Tain to the west. Hill of Fearn was the birthplace of the New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser. He received a basic education in Scotland, but had to leave school due to his family's poor financial state. Though apprenticed to a carpenter, he eventually abandoned this trade due to extremely poor eyesight, later in life, faced with difficulty reading official documents, he would insist on spoken reports rather than written ones. At the age of 26, after unsuccessfully seeking employment in London, England, Fraser decided to move to New Zealand, having apparently chosen the country in the belief that it possessed a strong progressive spirit.
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