Every year when we go to the west coast of Scotland, we travel from Fort William to Mallaig along the ‘Romantic Road to the Isles’ its a must if you are visiting the West Coast of Scotland. Even better if you can travel on the West Highland Railway Line. The last time we manage to travel on the train, was 2012, you have to book about a year in advance, even then its touch and go. So early last year 2016 we booked, we got some of the last seats, even booking that early. We are making the trip in about three weeks time and looking back at last years photos I found some of our visit to one of the stations on the line, a very famous one at Glenfinnan. Glenfinnan is where, in 1745, the ‘Jacobite Rising’ started and there is now a 60ft tall monument, which was built to commemorate the occasion. Unfortunately the monument was having a facelift, but you get the idea how tall it is. While we were visiting the station the train came in, ‘ The Jacobite’ it was quite a long stop as you are allow to disembark and take photos. Once the train left the station, we jumped in the car and gave chase. I wanted to catch the train going over a particular bridge very near to Mallaig and having missed it so many times in the past, I got lucky this time and got my train. So I thought I better post last years 2016 trip, before this years 2017 trip 🙂
