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Escape with us on a remarkable
railway to the far tip of Scotland.

We'll travel along coasts and to
castles.

Exploring the remote corners of this
beautiful country.

The colours are so dynamic.

It just makes a beautiful picture.

On a railway line that explores
Scotland's wild side.

We're just, piece by piece, putting
it back together.

Its extraordinary landscapes.

It's pretty amazing that that's what
everything around us is built upon.

And a place with a tragic past.

They thought that what was happening
to them...

..was punishment from God.

We'll meet the people who work and
live along this special line.

It's stunning. You have to be here
to experience it.

And get to see the wild and rugged
Scottish Highlands along the way.

This is no ordinary railway
journey.

This is one of the most scenic
train journeys in the world.

The Far North Line, Scotland.

Historic Inverness.

Sitting by the great River Ness.

It is the capital of the Highlands.

And where our journey is about to
begin.

We're about to embark on a trip on
the Far North Line.

Britain's most northerly railway.

Our train is a Scotrail Class 158
diesel multiple-unit.

It leaves Inverness at 10:41 on its
167 mile journey.

From Inverness, we skirt the shores
of the Beauly Firth to Beauly.

Before heading north to Dornoch
Firth where we'll alight at Ardgay.

The Far North Line then loops inland
to Rogart

before again heading to the coast to
Golspie.

We continue north past Helmsdale

to the vast expanse of The Flow
Country.

Stop at Forsinard and then on to
Thurso.

After 4-and-a-half hours, we'll
reach our destination,

the historic town of Wick.

Surprisingly this line was built in
several stages between 1862 and
1874.

This was due to the many private
estates that then owned the
Highlands.

John has worked for Scotrail for 26
years.

And knows the line and its history
intimately.

This was a railway built primarily
for freights promoted by landowner
interest.

Being a landowner in these parts

wasn't necessarily a route to
prosperity.

And certainly no use unless you
could

sell your products and these might
range from

cattle, to myrrh, whiskey,
flagstones.

As the private estates stretched
across large swathes of coasts and
countryside,

they demanded the railway did the
same.

Creating a unique and varied route.

I think its the alternation of
coastal and inland scenery,

which is the special magic of this
line.

These great slices of coastal
scenery interrupted by dashes
inland.

Our train now tracks along the
Beauly Firth.

It is fed by two rivers, the Ness
and the Beauly.

And was once the site of an ancient
glacier.

The scenery is absolutely beautiful
in Scotland.

Because of the colour of the gorses,

the mountains, the lochs, the
rivers.

It's just absolutely awesome, no
matter what time of the year you
come.

After just 15 minutes, our train
arrives at our first stop.

Beauly.

There is no finer place to come to
find one of Scotland's
quintessential tailors.

An emporium of authentic tweed that
has been in business for over 160
years.

We're known as the Highland tweed
house.

And these shelves here have been
stocked with these beautiful

bolts of tweed ever since we were
founded in 1858.

Making a tailored suit is a work of
art.

From choosing the cloth, laying out
the pattern on the tweed,

to cutting various pieces out before
they are sewn together.

There's a real sort of theatre and
drama to it.

Real passion for craftmanship and
a great attention to detail.

Many of the distinctive tweed
patterns

are inspired by the earthy colours
of the Scottish countryside.

Tweeds typically were a camouflage
to be worn on the land for fields.

You would tend to find that the
estate tweeds embody colours

that are prevalent on those pieces
of land.

You know, you might see the purples
of heather, the yellows of gorse,
the browns of bracken.

It's only a short walk to the
Beauly, one of the countries best
salmon fishing rivers.

Set in the beautiful Highland
scenery,

you can understand why Beauly in
French means "The beautiful place".

Today, Peter and his dog are walking
upstream in search of the perfect
pool to catch some fish.

So we're out on this beautiful bit
of river today,

to see if we can find one of those
elusive summer salmon.

Come to hell. Good girl.

Sit.

We've got a bit of a swirly wind and
trees behind us.

I'm going to use a single spey cast
today.

A spey cast is about keeping the fly
in front of you.

It never goes behind you,

The salmon are born upstream in the
two tributaries that feed the Beauly
river.

When four to five inches long, they
migrate down to the sea where they
mature.

Before they return to their
birthplace to spawn.

In salmon fishing, one of the key
things is knowing where the fish
are.

They're not evenly distributed
through the river.

Salmon sometimes rest on the
riverbed,

which is known as a lie.

I want to cover a lie on the far
side where there's a stone.

I'm having to use a fairly long
line.

And fishing a shooting head to try
and get a decent line out.

So make a loop and out it goes.

Then, patience is the key.

A lot of the time you're not going
to catch a salmon. A salmon's a
bonus.

Today, it's really bright and salmon
don't have any eyelids.

So when they're looking up to see
the fly, they can't see it against
the bright sun.

That's making fishing very
challenging today.

So I'm going to let the dog have a
swim through the pool, wake them up.

Doesn't seem to do any harm, it's an
old gullies trick, might be worth a
try.

The river connects you to nature
more than anything else.

But there's no doubt it can connect
you to yourself as well.

I always put fish back these days.

Letting them breed and making more
salmon.

It's a fish.

Bloody hell, after casting at the
same spot all that time.

That was a salmon.

Well, well.

As we leave Peter to the absolute
joys of fishing,

we continue north to Dornoch Firth.

We'll explore more of the
Highland's finest landscapes.

We're about 44 miles into a new
Scottish train journey.

Travelling on the Far North Line to
the extraordinary coastline of
Caithness.

Whatever your reason to visit this
land of mountain, moor and loch,

the train is just the beginning.

It's always the start of an
adventure when you go far from home.

Especially by yourself. And I think
that's what makes this trip special
for me.

After Beauly, our train heads north
to Tain.

And tracks along the edges of
Dornoch Firth.

Until Ardgay where we'll stop to
explore the wilds of Alladale

and nearby Croick church.

We'll then travel inland to Rogart
before returning to the coast at
Golspie.

And the magnificent Dunrobin castle.

There are parallels with New Zealand
and Switzerland and places like
that.

But I think Scotland can hold its
own as far as beauty's concerned.

We're an hour and a half from
Inverness as we pull...

..into the station at Ardgay.

This area is famous for its
expansive moors and stark beauty.

But it wasn't always like this.

10,000 years ago, the area was
covered with the dense Caledonian
forest that teemed with wildlife.

At Alladale Wilderness Reserve, a
beautiful remote glen,

they want to bring back the rich
woodlands with an ambitious
rewilding project.

Reserve manager Innes has worked the
land for 30 years.

He leads the dedicated team
restoring the area and its wildlife.

And today we join him as he heads up
through Alladale to check on
progress.

The area we're in at the moment, we
planted in 2010.

We planted approximately 80,000
trees in here.

Predominantly Scots Pine on the
north slopes.

There's a mixture of birches and
rowans and other native
broad-leaves.

Over the last 18 years, they have
planted over a million trees

across this 23,000 acre Highland
paradise.

Hopefully, through the next few
decades, this will become a wooded
landscape in places again.

Giving us clean air to breathe you
know.

Physically having helped plant these
trees in the area we're stood in at
the moment,

selfishly I want it to happen a lot
quicker than it is.

You can't beat nature, you know.

It's not just the woodlands they are
reviving.

The biodiversity was much richer in
the past.

And today it's predominantly deer
that live here.

So Innes is working to slowly
re-introduce native species.

Like the red squirrel.

We brought back the red squirrels in
2013.

Well, they're a native species so
they belong here.

We took 36 red squirrels to some
wooded areas.

The more habitat we create here, the
more areas we get for the red
squirrels the better.

The whole countryside could be for
everything.

It's not just about creating this
woodland, it's about creating
something

that's going to be important for the
birdlife that's going to us it in
the future.

And the squirrels hopefully once the
trees get established.

It's a massive jigsaw puzzle, piece
by piece putting it back together.

At the west end of Alladale, Innes
has found their herd of Highland
cows.

Another part of the rewilding
jigsaw.

There are regrazing plans for the
reserve.

The cowpats that the cattle are
producing, great for insects.

Insects help feed the wading birds.

It's important to have big grazers
like this.

They're heavy-hoofed animals as
well. They're great for aerating the
ground and breaking the surface.

Every now and again we run them
through some of the wooded areas.

It's great for opening the ground up
for trees to reseed naturally.

There is no quick fix to rewild
Alladale.

But their pioneering work will
undoubtedly benefit many future
generations.

Come on.

Come on, guys.

When you going to have your calf,
girl?

We're back on board our Scotrail
train as it weaves inland.

And heads towards the county of
Sutherland.

Beautiful. Lots of gorse everywhere.
That's a real...very Scottish thing.

There's lots of fields of gorse
bushes, which is very yellow.

And the colours are so dynamic.

It just makes a beautiful picture.

But in the past, this area was the
backdrop to the Highland clearances.

This is when landowners forced the
local families off their private
estate.

At the time, people were crofters,
farming in the glens and paying
their dues to the landowners.

A simple, sustainable way of life
for many in the Highlands until the
clearances.

The famine set in and the reputation
of the landowners

nosedived when they were seen as
perpetrating almost a form of
genocide.

The windows of Croick church tucked
away near Dornoch Firth,

reveal the story of Glencalvie's
clearances.

18 families, 90 people in total,
were cleared from their homes where
they had lived for generations.

They sought refuge in this
graveyard.

This is the important window that
we're very proud of.

When the families were cleared and
sheltering in the graveyard,

they scratched their names on the
glass.

Although the crofters paid rent, the
landowners wanted to make more
money,

by introducing lucrative commercial
sheep farming.

People of Glencalvie that were
cleared in 1845,

had never fallen behind in their
rents at all and weren't a burden
on anyone.

The landowners were actually quite
ruthless.

They cleared everyone from their
homes.

A very sad part of Scottish history
altogether.

And instead of a valley having,
perhaps 90 people living in it,

there were hundreds of sheep and one
shepherd.

Two centuries on, the windows of
this Croick church tell of the
anguish

of the displaced people of
Glencalvie.

So we can actually see the names
that were there.

There's the name of one of the
shepherds.

There's also a lady's name of Babs.
Her name was scratched on it.

And I think the saddest thing of the
windows of all,

is the one that says, "Glencalvie,
the wicked generation".

They though that what was happening
to them

was punishment from God.

How sad is that?

Many of the people who were forced
to leave their homes

during the clearances were never
able to return.

We've now travelled 60 miles since
Inverness as we cross the Kyle of
Sutherland at Invershin.

TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT
We are now approaching Rogart. This
is a request stop.

Please mind the gap when alighting
from this train.

At Rogart station, passengers might
catch a quick glimpse of an
old shunter

on the move, right behind the
station house.

This is a Ruston 48DS Shunter dating
from 1950.

Its spent its days shunting in
Newcastle docks and it's actually

the smallest locomotive that
ever worked on the UK system.

It's been with us for about 15 or 16
years now.

His passion for trains isn't limited
to just the shunter.

Frank and his wife Kate were on a
cycling holiday in 1992,

when they spotted Rogart station
building for sale.

Within a year, they had moved in.

We scratched our heads for about a
year and a half trying to think
what're we going to do with this.

And we decided we would try and
convert it into accommodation.

In 1994, we got some carriages in
and things have taken off from
there.

Nearly 30 years on, their fleet of
renovated holiday homes

are a quirky mix of carriages and
former railway buildings.

People like sleeping in a train
because A, it sounds romantic,

B, many people did it when they were
kids

and C, it recreates the concept of
the camping coach in the 1930s

where the railway company would
actually convert some coaches

and put them into remote wayside
stations.

I have told people that you don't
know where you're going to wake up
in the morning.

It depends on where your dreams take
you.

It's time to leave Rogart and
continue our journey.

This next stage of the line was
built in 1868.

It ran though only as far as
Golspie on the North Sea.

Until the third Duke of Sutherland,
one of the richest landowners in the
country

fancied having his very own line
conveniently to his ancestral home.

The Duke of Sutherland actually
built a 17 mile stretch on the line

which became the longest single
stretch of railway anywhere in
Britain to have been conceived,

funded and delivered by one
individual.

And if one had one's own railway
line,

one would, of course, have one's own
beautiful station.

We're now coming up to Dunrobin
Castle station.

A request stop serving the seat of
the Duke of Sutherland, the man who
built this railway.

Dunrobin castle.

The Duke's family seat.

Inspired no less by French chateaus
and the gardens of Versailles.

The castle dates from around about
1275.

Built by Robin, Earl of Sutherland.

There's been a number of extensions
since then.

And the largest extension was built
in 1850 by the second Duke of
Sutherland.

The castle was designed by Charles
Barry.

And immense figure in 19th century
British architecture.

He designed the Palace of
Westminster and the second Duke
wanted something equally as grand.

The vision that Charles Barry would
have been asked to create by the
family, the fairy tale castle.

Scott has worked here for over 24
years.

A job that stretches from managing
the 100,000 visitors a year

to a daily bit of timekeeping.

Every week, sometimes twice a week,
the clock has to be wound up.

Thanks to Charles Barry, Dunrobin's
clock bears some striking
similarities with Big Ben in London.

So it's not perfect.

Does need tweaking from time to
time.

Sometimes it goes out of sync.

So, sometimes you have to come up
here to release the bells and
release the time so it'll catch up.

Dunrobin has 189 rooms.

and is one of the grandest houses in
Scotland.

With its magnificent location
perched high above the North Sea,

it's straight out of the storybook.

If you can afford to build a French
chateau in the Highlands of
Scotland,

then you can also afford your own
train.

He was very often driving his engine
backwards and forwards on the line.

He built this line, maybe quite an
eccentric thing to do at the time,

but it has really shaped the north
Highland, the way that it is now.

Back on our train, we follow the
Sutherland coast towards Helmsdale.

With views out across the North Sea.

We'll then venture inland along the
Helmsdale river

until we arrive in the incredible
Flow country.

Before finally reaching the
magnificent Caithness coastline.

We're halfway through our journey
along the Far North Line

as it heads to the top Eastern
corner of Scotland.

This four and a half hour trip has a
multitude of stunning, varied
landscapes

from countryside to castles and the
coast.

I enjoy travelling by train.

And we can see the scenery in this
part of the world.

Slight different from anywhere else
in the country.

At Helmsdale, our train leaves the
coast to reach the vast Flow
Country.

We'll stop at the RSPB reserve at
Forsinard.

Before crossing Caithness to Thurso
and Castletown,

where the local stone made such an
impact.

Finally the last port of call will
be the historic town of Wick.

So the scenery has now changed with
a vengeance with our turning inland

from Helmsdale to follow the course
of the Helmsdale river up
Strathulie.

Our train follows the river for 15
miles.

An area famous for gold panning and
wild salmon fishing.

But then it enters a remote sparsely
populated area.

That is one of the worlds rarest
habitats.

This is the spectacular Flow
Country.

An expanse of unique peak land and
rolling mountains.

It's hard to describe but it's
almost like being on the edge of
civilization.

This small station house at
Forsinard

is the visitor centre for the
Forsinard Flow's Nature Reserve.

Managed by the RSPB, the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds.

Paul leads a special team of RSPB
conservationists

tasked with preserving this unique
an important natural habitat.

The largest continuous area of
blanket bog in Europe

and our reserve is 21,000 hectares.

A hectare's roughly the same size
as a rugby pitch.

So you're looking at about 21,000
rugby pitches.

And this is only a small part of the
larger Flow Country area,

which is roughly 4,000 square miles.

So it's quite a substantial
landscape.

The peatlands store up more carbon
than all of the standing forestry in
the UK.

The peatlands around us here are
actually an incredible part in our
fight against climate change.

Blanket bog is continuous peatland.

So after the glaciers strip away
everything that's there

and it takes very specific climactic
conditions to form peat.

It needs to be quite cool and very
damp.

Part of Paul's work is to do regular
peat depth surveys

to determine how deep a particular
section of peat is.

Peat formation in the blanket bog
has been forming for thousands of
years.

Only forms at about a millimetre a
year.

So, actually your fingernails grow
faster than peat accumulates.

These peat sections are about a
metre long

so they're roughly 1,000 years of
peat depth per section that's going
in.

So that's it hitting the bottom
there. So it's about 3,500 years of
peat accumulation.

The results of these studies help
Paul and his team to monitor the
health of the peat.

We also look at restoring and
repairing damaged areas

that have been knackered by
inappropriate and agricultural
forestry operations.

If we can keep our peatlands in good
condition then we can restore more
carbon underground.

But if we allow it to be damaged,
then we risk losing that carbon to
the atmosphere.

Visitors can get a much better
understanding of these remarkable
peatlands from higher up.

From here, they can see that the
Flow Country is a water world

made up of a mysterious pool system.

We don't really know how they are
created.

It's likely it's driven when erosion
eats away at the edges of smaller
pools

and forms them into these larger
ones.

So over time, they start to
amalgamate together.

These magnificent pool systems are
the natural habitat for thousands of
plants and bird species.

When you do take the time to look at
it and look a bit closer,

you start to find these small
plants, lizards on the boardwalk,

and dragonflies buzzing around. And
that's when you really start to see
what's special here.

Among the many wonders of the Flow
Country are the sphagnum mosses.

These plants are so highly
absorbent,

they were harvested and used as
wound dressings in World War One.

Sphagnum mosses are the building
block of which a blanket bog is
constructed.

Because there's no oxygen, there's
not bacteria to break down the
vegetation.

The sphagnum, instead of breaking
down, basically gets transformed
into peat.

You get accumulation of that peat.

Individually, they're quite small
and fragile looking.

It's pretty amazing that that's what
everything around us is basically
built upon.

Back on board our train, our journey
continues through the heart of
Caithness.

There is no shelter for the railway
line.

And this far north, it's very
exposed, especially in winter.

John recalls one particularly
extraordinary year.

On 28th January 1978, the evening
train from Inverness to Wick was

busy, with over 70 passengers, but
climbed into terrifying conditions.

After leaving Forsinard, it suddenly
ground to a horrendous halt.

And there they stood.

A southbound locomotive sent to
rescue them

also became trapped in the snow.

Many people went to help that night.

Even though the blizzard of 1978 was
one of the most severe in living
memory.

Despite the near whiteout
conditions,

eventually all the passengers were
airlifted and safely returned home.

As our train continues north, we
reach Georgemas Junction.

From here it splits to go to Thurso.

And along the way, another of
Caithness' famous features comes
into view.

Its stone.

Building dry-stone walls is an
ancient craft dating back thousands
of years.

They're built using the local
Caithness flagstone, a rock that is
highly sought after.

Thurso is the countries most
northerly stop.

And just a mile east from here is
Castletown.

The flagstone village.

It isn't just the walls that are
made of Caithness stone.

It was used to build this
extraordinary harbour too.

George, who was born and raised in
the area, is a dry-stone walling
master craftsman.

This is dry-stone walling. It's the
same principles as farm walling.

You'll see that around the farms in
the countryside in Caithness.

But its been applied on a much more
massive engineering scale for
harbour construction.

The principle of dry-stone walling
is that it works on friction.

Caithness flagstones are flat and
strong.

And no mortar, neither cement or
lime, is used to hold them together.

If the wall moves and the mortar and
the cement cracks, water gets
trapped inside the structure.

Then it can expand and start blowing
things out.

A wall without mortar is
free draining.

If you took a dry-stone wall apart,
the wall inside would be dry,
because it's designed to shed water.

The harbour walling Castletown was
built 200 years ago in 1825.

It still stands strong today.

All of the stones are held together
by the friction between the stones.

And then when we get to the top
layer,

we put these vertical stones on the
top.

Here they're gigantic because it's a
harbour but even on the agricultural
walls,

they have vertical stones on top
which puts pressure on that last
layer and holds it in place.

If the last layer is held in place,
then all the other layers underneath
are secured as well by that.

As the tide goes out, the full
extent of the walls clever
engineering is revealed.

The outside has been built in a
unique way for withstanding big
storms.

If they were all nice and flat and
even, then the wave would hit them
all at once.

It'd be a much heavier load on the
stones. But when they're rough like
that,

they break up the force of the wave
into lots of different impacts
rather than one big impact.

Castletown's small harbour was once
one of the busiest harbours in
Caithness.

It used to export the precious
Caithness flagstone around the
world.

Back in the day of the 1800s, stone
from here was being exported to
London, New York, Boston,

Paris, Sydney, all around the globe
from this tiny little harbour.

It's quite an achievement.

To this day, the stone continues to
occupy a special place in Caithness.

It still drives a thriving modern
industry.

Caithness is proud of its history
with Caithness flagstone.

It's one of the oldest industries up
here.

And it's certainly one of the oldest
industries that's still flourishing
today.

Big selling point of the Caithness
flagstone is its very, very flat
nature.

And its extremely high flexural
strength.

Caithness flagstones formed 400
million years ago,

at the bottom of a colossal lake
stretching from Orkney to Moray.

As the water levels changed, the
fine sediment settled and fused
together over time.

You can see the horizontal strata of
the stone which is perfectly flat.

The various layers of sand and
minerals that have been compacted
over millions of years.

That have gone into forming the
Caithness flagstone.

21st Century technology is used
around the quarry,

but not for one key point, splitting
the stone.

The ancient art of chasing the crack
is always by hand.

We can't machine split the stone.

It takes a level of skill and
understanding of exactly where to
split the stone,

the forces and the pressures to use
to split the stone.

John has been perfecting this art
for 17 years.

We've got 13 layers in a quarry.

And what we do is, we split it down
into the different thicknesses

using natural grains.

I'm using the wing of the hammer and
knowing how hard to hit it.

Listening to see if it's opening up
cos it should be.

The stone can then be cut to size
using modern laser guided diamond
saws.

It is then ready to be shipped
around the world.

It's nice to be one of the last
remaining quarries

that still uses the modern and
ancient technique.

Generations of different techniques
and generations of different skills.

Back on board our train, we're
heading to our final stop, Wick.

A town with a rich fishing history
and on one of the countries most
spectacular coastlines.

We are in the county of Caithness on
the final part of our journey on
Scotland's Far North Line.

It's been a relaxing journey today.

You're seeing so much, different
landscapes.

This is what makes it one of the
beautiful journeys.

Not only in Scotland or the UK but
in the world.

We have travelled over 150 miles
since we left Inverness.

And now arrive at our destination.

Wick.

This former Viking settlement is the
main town in the far northeast of
mainland Scotland.

The place intrinsically connected to
the sea.

Wick's now quiet harbour was once
the buzzing herring capital of
Europe.

The Wick Heritage Museum is home to
the Johnston Collection.

An incredible 50,000 digital images.

Ian is their chairman.

These photographs were taken by
Alexander Johnston.

He was the first of three
generations that was to

photograph in Wick and its
surrounding areas.

He left an enormous visual social
history of this area.

Alexander Johnston's photographs
from the 1860s

captured an era when Wick harbour
was a hive of activity.

They showed the countless boats
returning with their daily catch

and the land based industry that
supported them.

We reckon that there was probably,
at its busiest time, around about
1,000 boats in the harbour.

So it was a very busy and congested
place.

All of these boats were unloading
herring.

There was teams of herring girls
ready with their knives. They were
the gutters of the herring.

Very proficient they became at the
gutting.

The best of them could do 30 or 40
herring in a minute.

The herring, known as the silver
darlings, were then packed into
barrels, salted and sealed.

There was a schooner waiting to take
the completed barrels away for
export to the Baltic countries.

The herring industry gradually
declined after World War One

when fish stocks began to dwindle.

But Johnston's photographs remain a
powerful testament

to the long gone glory days of
Wick's fishing industry.

There's stories behind all of these
photographs.

The people that were engaged in
various occupations.

Every picture tells a story.

Before Wick's heyday, local
fishermen had to take their chances

and unload their catches along the
rugged coastline of Caithness.

One popular natural harbour was at
Whaligoe.

But it was at the bottom of a 250
foot cliff.

To reach the sea in 1792, 365 steps
were painstakingly built

using the local Caithness
flagstone.

Charles grew up in a village nearby
and has known the Whaligoe steps all
his life.

200 years ago, it had been quite a
brutal piece of living.

This place has been crammed with
bolts.

And people docking fish down there.

The women carried the fish from the
bottom,

up the stairs and they walked to
Wick which is seven miles away.

This steep exhausting path was never
going to be able to compete with the
big harbour.

By the mid 1800s, there could be 20
boats using Whaligoe.

while 1,000 went to Wick.

And when the boats stopped coming
altogether, the steps began to
crumble and were nearly forgotten.

Like his mother before him, Charlie
helps to repair and maintain the
steps.

To keep them safe for visitors.

I get a great feeling working here.

It feels as if the place wants to be
repaired.

I would say there's a fair bit of
spirit on the go here.

It's stunning. You have to be here
to experience it.

The soaring sea stacks and
magnificent cliffs of Caithness

will always be a fitting end to
anyone's journey.

We've travelled past idyllic rivers,

and explored the wild corners of
Scotland.

We've crossed the unique Flow
Country.

And capped it all...

..with Caithness' extraordinary
coastline.

All along the Far North Line.
Indeed, one of the world's greatest
train journeys.