Complex sentence: Initially two trains a day covered the from Inverness to Wick in between 7 and hours, by 1885 the fastest trains were taking 6 hours, and in 1914 the "Further North Express" took hours.
Split into simpler sentences: Initially two trains a day covered the from Inverness to Wick in between 7 and hours. By 1885 the fastest trains were taking 6 hours, and in 1914 the "Further North Express" took hours.