Wick is the last stop on the Far North Line, four & a half hours journey from Inverness. Opened in July 1874 as the furthest terminus of the Far North Line the station building at Wick is almost identical to the one at Thurso. The station was surprisingly built a distance from the harbour causing an extra hurdle for the fishing boats to transport their catches to the good yard. The earliest plan for a railway here was formed in 1866 just to connect Wick and Thurso but the funding target was never reached. The successful plan a few years later involved connecting to the Duke of Sutherland’s Railway and so to the rest of the Scottish rail network. The line built meandered inland rather than a more direct route to Wick which reportedly caused bad feeling & a lasting disdain towards the railway here! Between 1903 and 1944 Wick lost it’s “end of the line” status with trains running an extra 13 miles on the Wick and Lybster Light Railway.