A day trip to Dingwall, 161111
Using Bargain berth sleeper (Etn-FW and INV-Etn) plus Citylink 919 advance coach fares (FW-INV) a fairly high mileage day trip can be raked in for less than the cost of
a railtour. OK average power, but great fun all the same……………..
Wonderful early
morning light as 67007 leaves Rannoch with 1S25 Fort William portion
Sadly Fort
William station has about the same character as Stevenage!, 67007 at the blocks
Very different
weather at the North’s finest, 158720 in the Dingwall fog
Stopping well
short of the blocks at Inverness is 43206 with the daytime service from Kings
X, M16 is on the right
67030 at
Inverness with 1M16 2046 Euston portion.
Next morning,
90028 is at the blocks with M16, said “Skoda” had worked our S25 north late on
15/11, mileage move!
From better times….perhaps?
Using the same
platform as the M16 view of the skip above is 27109 steaming nicely on the 0840
to Aberdeen. New road and a Morrisons now covers the old parcels depot and
sidings to the left, 290582
And
“Muirs’ changed a bit too, 26034 arrives at Muir of Ord with the 1750
Inverness-Kyle, 290582. The Grain silo and sidings are now new housing although
a single grain siding survives albeit lost in birch trees