Riding Scotland’s most remote railway


My favorite

On first encounter with the Far North railway service between Wick and Inverness, you are inclined to rub your eyes in disbelief. You may be fishing (as I was) or bird-watching or tramping; anyway, doing something solitary in one of the emptiest corners of the land. Then out of the emptiness rattles a train. Where, you wonder, has it come from? Where can it be going?

I’ve traveled this line a few times. Generally with a bicycle at hand.

Hardly a lovelier place to be on Earth.

Posted: Sun - May 11, 2008 at 05:30 PM