The Slochd Summit (/slɒxk/;[1] Scottish Gaelic: An Sloc) is a mountain pass on the A9 road and the Highland Main Line Railway in the Scottish Highlands between Inverness and Aviemore. An old military road also goes through the pass. National Cycle Network route 7 also goes over the summit, largely following the old A9.
Both the road and the railway have signs marking the spot - the A9 is at a height of 1,328 feet (405 m), while the railway reaches 1,315 feet (401 m). The Slochd Summit is the second highest place on the route from Inverness to Perth - the Pass of Drumochter at 1,500 feet (460 m) is higher and bleaker.
Sign next to the railway line
^Diack, Alison M. G.; Grant, James H. "Place Names of the Cairngorms National Park" (PDF). Grantown-on-Spey: Cairngorms National Park Authority. p. 14. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
The SlochdSummit (/slɒxk/; Scottish Gaelic: An Sloc) is a mountain pass on the A9 road and the Highland Main Line Railway in the Scottish Highlands between...
significant summits on the line: Drumochter Summit (also spelled Druimuachdar) (elevation 1,484 feet (452 m)) between Blair Atholl and Dalwhinnie, and Slochd Summit...
Grampian mountains via the Pass of Killiecrankie, Pass of Drumochter and SlochdSummit to the Moray Firth at Inverness. Pitlochry | Blair Atholl | Newtonmore...
Carn nam Bain-tighearna, on the county march (boundary) just east of Slochdsummit on the A9. There is no old-established name for these heights, but they...
for Stobart Rail, derailed on the 1 in 60 (1.67%) gradient down from SlochdSummit at the run out or trap points at the northern end of the station, and...
(Millburn Junction) on 1 November 1898. The Direct Line had a new summit, at Slochd, 1,315 feet. The steep gradients on the line, both via Dava and via...
from Gleann an t-Slugain in the south. To the west of the summit lies the massive corrie, Slochd Mòr, with its rocky cliffs, and the approaches from the...
1898. The new line incorporated the Highland Railway’s second-highest summit: Slochd at 1,315 feet. The Strathnairn Viaduct near Culloden Moor is Scotland’s...
Just beyond this the Allt Bruachaig tumbles down from the heights of the Slochd Mor and joins the Findhorn on its right bank. Here the river takes its only...
level, above which domed summits (the eroded stumps of once much higher mountains) rise to around 1300 m. Many of the summits have tors, free-standing...
the National Cycle Network. Wade took the road through the pass at The Slochd just as the modern road does, and crossed the River Findhorn at Raigbeg...
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