Altnabreac railway station is an incredibly rural station on the Far North Line which is 133 miles down the line from Inverness. The reason behind the stations construction remains a mystery. At the time of construction it was 8 miles from the nearest settlement and 10 miles from the nearest road! The station had a passing loop with a water tank so it may have been built for operational reasons.
The station sits on a private dirt road marked as a cycle trail on OS maps. Being 7 miles from the nearest road and 11 miles from the nearest village the station is listed as one of Britains most isolated railway station. Dixe Wills once said of the area:
"What is all the more remarkable is that the following events took place took place in the vicinity of the most remote station on my itinerary, a place girded round by peat-black lochs and dismal bogs and overshadowed by dark, anonymous plantations of doomed conifers, where nothing of any note has happened these past 70 years save for intense despondent brooding."