West is best in the highlands

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

Our walks this month Ian Battersby 1 ...

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In the Black Isle Bar in Inverness last year after D213 Andania had arrived in the city on a charter from Crewe, I collared Nick Gibbons, of Locomotive Services, and asked him about the chances of tak