As promised… 
Here’s a little trip that I did last week.
We start on platform 1 at Fort William railway station.
Our train is shunted (by a diesel) into place to await our loco.
The loco gets coupled, then we’re allowed onto the platform
We’re off and we’re about to go through a little tunnel
A quick stop at Glenfinnan Station whilst we wait for an oncoming train (this is single track for most of the way)
A couple of touristy pics for those who like the scenery.
Our destination:
On the way back (same route) a couple of pics of the bridge on a Scottish £10 note.
(Glenfinnan Viaduct)
Bonus pics…
The next day, I was able to take pics of a different loco doing the same job…
If any one wants to know Glen Finnan is where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his Standard to rally the cause ,it all ended in tears at Culloden near Inverness though.The viaduct built by "CONCRETE BOB MACALPINE"featured in one of the Harry Potter films.
i was treated ( for father’s day )a few years ago to the full trip . crianlarich to fort william , change trains then on to mallaig . what a stunning day it was , i keep promising myself i’ll do it again someday . you see sights that you could never see off the road .
rigsby:
i was treated ( for father’s day )a few years ago to the full trip . crianlarich to fort william , change trains then on to mallaig . what a stunning day it was , i keep promising myself i’ll do it again someday . you see sights that you could never see off the road .
We did Arrisaig to Fort William and then back to Mallaig when we were on a caravan rally at Back of Kepoch a few years ago Dave, only a diesel hauled service train (steamer was booked up weeks in advance!) but even that slowed right down on the viaduct to let us take photographs.
Pete.
My son was watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang yesterday (I know it’s a right load of crap) and I noticed a remarkable bit of time travelling; They were driving alongside a railway, on which was a Hunslet Austerity tank engine, which given the time the film was set was amazing. Austerities weren’t built for another 20 years. Incidentally, the Austerities are used a lot on the Isle Of Wight Steam Railway these days.
Whilst on the subject, The Railway Children. Edwardian era, in Yorkshire. Why is there a Swindon built GWR pannier tank working the line? The type shown hadn’t even been built until the 1920s. Edwardian era ended in 1910.
alamcculloch:
If any one wants to know Glen Finnan is where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his Standard to rally the cause ,it all ended in tears at Culloden near Inverness though.The viaduct built by "CONCRETE BOB MACALPINE"featured in one of the Harry Potter films.
That’s a beautiful part of the country, so it’s noted for next time we go to Scotland. 
windrush:
rigsby:
i was treated ( for father’s day )a few years ago to the full trip . crianlarich to fort william , change trains then on to mallaig . what a stunning day it was , i keep promising myself i’ll do it again someday . you see sights that you could never see off the road .
We did Arrisaig to Fort William and then back to Mallaig when we were on a caravan rally at Back of Kepoch a few years ago Dave, only a diesel hauled service train (steamer was booked up weeks in advance!) but even that slowed right down on the viaduct to let us take photographs.
Pete.
Apparently, I was very lucky to have been able to book the steam train this year and I booked it in May. 
West Coast Railways advised me to book much earlier in the year because it fills up very quickly, and TBF, they weren’t kidding!!
Duly noted for next time.
Muckaway:
My son was watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang yesterday (I know it’s a right load of crap) and I noticed a remarkable bit of time travelling; They were driving alongside a railway, on which was a Hunslet Austerity tank engine, which given the time the film was set was amazing. Austerities weren’t built for another 20 years. Incidentally, the Austerities are used a lot on the Isle Of Wight Steam Railway these days.
Whilst on the subject, The Railway Children. Edwardian era, in Yorkshire. Why is there a Swindon built GWR pannier tank working the line? The type shown hadn’t even been built until the 1920s. Edwardian era ended in 1910.
If the Austerity tank was twenty years too early then was the flying car of the title about two Centuries too early as well? 
And yes I know that the real car existed in Grand Prix form but it didn’t actually fly.
The Pannier was there because the Worth Valley railway didn’t have much in the way of Edwardian locomotives at that time and I suppose they assumed that more folk would be watching Sally Thomsett and Jenny Agutter than worrying about what blooming chuff chuff was covering them in steam and soot?
Pete.
I love the errors in films and Tv Pete. Heartbeat was notorious for it. Saw a copper fall off a BSA and picked up a Triumph. 
They featured “dangerous” lorries once racing through the village. So why were the lorries on H when the series was set in the ‘60s?
Battle of The Bulge depicts the Yanks beating Hitlers’ Tigers because they realised the Germans ran out of fuel. They forgot to include the RAFs Typhoons that COULD blow apart a Tiger, unlike the Shermans.
Back to trains, Heartbeat showed a GWR engine at Aidensfield station, yet a tax disc in a mini said 1968. Western locos were axed by 1966.
