I can't argue with that, I use it to go hill walking every so often.
West Highland Line all the way to Mallaig. I know it takes you to Mallaig but several hours after leaving a busy city centre you arrive in a place which is very un-citylike having passed through the fjord land of Gare Loch & Loch Long before going into the mountains of the southern Highlands and the high moorland between Bridge of Orchy & Corrour before descending through the mountains to Fort Bill, over the swing bridge at Banavie with the view back towards Ben Nevis (on a good day) and then the increasingly rocky coastal hills & mountains towards Arisaig, the view down Loch Sheil from Glenfinnan and the final section towards Mallaig with the views of the inner Hebrides. Hopfully you end up in Mallaig in time for a ferry to somewhere other than Mallaig.
I can't argue with that, I use it to go hill walking every so often.
West Highland Line all the way to Mallaig. I know it takes you to Mallaig but several hours after leaving a busy city centre you arrive in a place which is very un-citylike having passed through the fjord land of Gare Loch & Loch Long before going into the mountains of the southern Highlands and the high moorland between Bridge of Orchy & Corrour before descending through the mountains to Fort Bill, over the swing bridge at Banavie with the view back towards Ben Nevis (on a good day) and then the increasingly rocky coastal hills & mountains towards Arisaig, the view down Loch Sheil from Glenfinnan and the final section towards Mallaig with the views of the inner Hebrides. Hopfully you end up in Mallaig in time for a ferry to somewhere other than Mallaig.
It is a downer that the line connects two of the most miserable places on the west coast of Scotland!
Fort William always leave me cold.
A great place to study how not to develop a town. Demolish the Fort, build a dual carriageway between the town and the amazing Loch, add in a huge Morrisons and the disaster is complete!
The only postive of Mallaig is the ferry to Skye, but even Skye is not the same since the bridge was built as its certainly no longer an island.