Date: 15/11/2023

Visitors to the West Highland Line can step off the train and back in time thanks to a series of walks from stations based on an audio play. 'Benighted on the Moor' was commissioned by the West Highland Community Rail Partnership (CRP) to highlight how the coming of the railway to Fort William brought not ...

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Walk in the footsteps of explorers with West Highland Line audio drama - Community Rail Network

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Visitors to the West Highland Line can step off the train and back in time thanks to a series of walks from stations based on an audio play.

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37408 and 402 cross Rannoch Viaduct with a southbound service. The camping coach, left of the station, is on the site of a former long siding.
Location: Rannoch Viaduct
Company: West Highland Railway
//1987 Bill Roberton

B1 No. 61306 'Mayflower' and 37685 'Loch Arkaig' top and tail the southbound 'Steam Dreams - Highlands and Islands Explorer', nearing Corrour Summit. Corrour Station is in the distance. 15th May 2019.
Location: Corrour Summit
Company: West Highland Railway
15/05/2019 John Gray

The shepherd's cottage at Gorton where, in 1889, Charles Forman, James Bulloch, J.E. Harrison, John Bett, Major Martin and N.B. McKenzie were to take shelter after the party walking the route of the prospective West Highland Railway got into difficulties. The cottage is now a bothy. The rising ground to the right is Meall a Ghortain, the name being adopted for both the cottage and station.
Location: Gorton Bothy
Company: Unset
//1994 Ewan Crawford

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Tags: x Benighted on the Moor x Rannoch Moor x Tulloch x Loch Treig x Corrour x Rannoch x Gorton x Loch Tulla x Bridge of Orchy x West Highland Community Rail Partnership