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The Highland Main Line Carn na Caim Beatrix Potter’s family took long summer breaks m, ,ft in nearby Dalguise, arriving by train, usually Built on a strategic site from May to the end of the salmon season in October. by George II’s government The Cairngorms National Park She befriended Charles Macintosh, local postman, between and , is a breathtaking living, working historian and naturalist and it was here she wrote the barracks housed landscape of high mountains, Ben Vrackie the “picture letter” which was the basis for her THETHE HIGHLANDHIGHLAND MAINMAIN LINELINE soldiers and horses magnificent forests, heather m, ,ft first book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”. and was built on the remains of moorlands and peatlands, (see picture below) A later book “The Tale of Jeremy Fisher” the medieval castles wetlands, rivers, floodplains and was clearly based on her study and exploration of The U.K.’s largest National Park River Spey of the Gordons and Comyns The Atholl family home for seven centuries farms, crofts, castles and history the River Tay. “The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle” comprising of about six per cent Loch Insh was published in and is almost certainly of Scotland's land area with The ruins of in Strath Garry, gatekeepers to the Grampians Cairngorms National Park Ruthven Barracks and the route north. A nine acre walled garden boundary based on the Potters’ old washer woman nearly two million visitors a year Views of the Torr Alvie Blair Castle (20mins) at Dalguise, Kitty MacDonald and the Duke of Gordon Monument and Diana’s Grove of exotic conifers Cairngorms National Park Cairngorm mountains A’ Bhuidheanach Bheag sit beside the castle and the northern part of River boundary and the Lairig Ghru Kincraig River Spey m, ,ft the estate is now within the Cairngorms National Park. Tay station BLAIR River Killiecrankie Railway Insh Marshes Nature Reserve Queen Victoria travelled on the railway line Tilt (disused) a mere six days after it opened on th September ATHOLL Station The Birnam Institute here can you see the oldest single arch bridge in the Highlands circa 1717, a Military turntable The Lechan (disused) Open air museum with over thirty to visit the th Duke of Atholl at Blair Castle View of the Beatrix Potter Royal Zoological historical buildings furnished to Ballinluig Barracks built by General Wade to quell the Jacobites, a beautiful Castle, go on a romantic Caledonian AVIEMORE Loch Alvie The Insh Marshes cover ten square Beinn a’ Pitlochry Dam Station Exhibition (5mins) Wood Society of Scotland the appropriate time period. Shierglas Ghlo Guay kilometres of the River Spey floodplain KINGUSSIE Highland Folk & Visitor Centre (disused Highland between Kingussie and Kincraig in A flavour of how Highland folk lived Quarry hills Station Ornate Rotmell Steam Train, visit a Beatrix Potter exhibition, spend a day at the Highland Folk Museum, Wildlife Park Museum (25mins) and worked from s to the s (15mins) branch line Birnam Badenoch and Strathspey. It is said to be Dalwhinnie River Truim Killiecrankie Gorge to Aberfeldy) (disused) Victorian Farm Dunkeld CARRBRIDGE Strathspey Steam one of the most important wetland areas Distillery (see picture to the left) Railway steading Polney visit a Hydro Electric Dam to see how power was harnessed from water, take a tour and taste a dram or JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORIC HIGHLANDS Railway in Europe, supporting populations of Ruthven Barracks Glen Truim and Soldier’s Leap Bridge Crag Brigadier-General Alexander Grant Highland Folk Museum NEWTONMORE PITLOCHRY of Grant, Clan Chief, commissioned (2 mins) breeding waders including curlew, (25 mins) Moulinarn Kinnaird House DUNKELD lapwing, red shank and snipe. Views down loch Drumochter Dalnamein House of Bruar River Garry Dalguise two at the highest distillery in Scotland and see the Cairngorms National Park from the window? John Niccelsone, a mason from Ballindalloch Newtonmore DALWHINNIE to Ben Alder Lodge Druimuachdar Pass st Highland Division Monument & BIRNAM Oldest stone bridge to build a bridge at Lynne of Dalrachney. Managed by the RSPB Golf Course Lodge Clunes Garry Bridge River Tummel Beat River Tay AND EIGHT STATIONS m, ft Castle fishing in the Highlands Built in , the parapets and side walls The highest point Dalnacardoch Lodge Pitagowan Peroch Dalguise (20mins) were badly damaged in the eighteenth century Calvine Pitlochry Dam lodge River Loch Ericht on the U.K. network Lodge Station and again in ‘The Muckle Spate’— Dalwhinnie Distillery Balsporan B&B (disused) Braan the great flood of , giving the appearance River Spey Two-layer rail Inver Wood THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY was engineer Joseph Mitchell’s dream, begun as a modest line from Inverness Probably the most famous salmon and trout (20mins) The three terraced it still has today white cottages used and road bridge The Iona Gallery in Kingussie fishing river in the entire world, (see Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, starring Ewan Mcgregor). The distillery gets its water to be for railway workers Struan Station River Tummel to Nairn in 1855. Mitchell pressed on and by 1863 the THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY had surmounted both is the only public art gallery (disused) Loch Faskally in the Cairngorms National Park It measures miles from its source ft up at from Lochan na Doire-uaine Many thanks to our funders: Loch Spey in the Corrieyairack Forest. It drains which is at an altitude of ,. Boar Sow Dalnaspidal River Garry Dava Moor and Druimuachdar Summit—at 1,484 feet, the highest on a main line in Britain. Today’s of Badenoch square miles of North East Scotland, For this water, the distillery Geal-charn of Atholl Station Dalnaspidal Lodge During construction of entering the North Sea in the Moray Firth gives the owners of the loch m, ,ft (disused) Scotland’s Hydro Schemes River Tay Craig Dhu twelve cases of whisky trains climb over it and then ascend Slochd Summit, a route that dates from 1898 devised by engineer The railway celebrates forty years of steam travel m , ,ft between and a year The Fara A’ Mharconaich Loch Tummel there were power stations through the Highlands of Scotland in . m, ,ft m, ,ft Murdoch Paterson. THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY, as it is known, is one of Scotland’s scenic lines and a finely Ten miles of restored track follow the original Loch built, kms of tunnels Highland Line from Aviemore to Boat of Garten Garry and a workforce of , Designed by Jules Akel who were known as Cover photograph by Jules Akel engineered route through the Grampian Mountains. and thence to Broomhill, the fictional Glenbogle Black and white photographs The Tunnel Tigers in the Scottish TV series Monarch of the Glen Views to are from Neil Sinclair’s book Rannoch Moor “The Highland Mainline” Dr Ann Glen Sgairneach Mhòr SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT m, ,ft Carn na Caim Beatrix Potter’s family took long summer breaks m, ,ft in nearby Dalguise, arriving by train, usually Built on a strategic site from May to the end of the salmon season in October. by George II’s government The Cairngorms National Park She befriended Charles Macintosh, local postman, between and , is a breathtaking living, working historian and naturalist and it was here she wrote the barracks housed landscape of high mountains, Ben Vrackie the “picture letter” which was the basis for her soldiers and horses magnificent forests, heather m, ,ft first book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”. and was built on the remains of moorlands and peatlands, (see picture below) A later book “The Tale of Jeremy Fisher” the medieval castles wetlands, rivers, floodplains and was clearly based on her study and exploration of The U.K.’s largest National Park River Spey Park National Cairngorms Park National Cairngorms of the Gordons and Comyns The Atholl family home for seven centuries farms, crofts, castles and history the River Tay. “The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle” comprising of about six per cent Loch Insh was published in and is almost certainly of Scotland's land area with The ruins of in Strath Garry, gatekeepers to the Grampians Cairngorms National Park Ruthven Barracks and the route north. A nine acre walled garden boundary based on the Potters’ old washer woman nearly two million visitors a year Views of the Torr Alvie Blair Castle (20mins) at Dalguise, Kitty MacDonald and the Duke of Gordon Monument and Diana’s Grove of exotic conifers Cairngorms National Park Cairngorm mountains A’ Bhuidheanach Bheag sit beside the castle and the northern part of River Kincraig Tay boundary Hendy-Pollock and the Lairig Ghru River Spey m, ,ft the estate is now within the Cairngorms National Park. station BLAIR River Killiecrankie Railway Insh Marshes Nature Reserve Queen Victoria travelled on the railway line Tilt (disused) a mere six days after it opened on th September ATHOLL Station The Birnam Institute turntable The Lechan (disused) Open air museum with over thirty to visit the th Duke of Atholl at Blair Castle View of the Beatrix Potter Royal Zoological historical buildings furnished to Ballinluig Caledonian AVIEMORE Loch Alvie The Insh Marshes cover ten square Beinn a’ Pitlochry Dam Station Exhibition (5mins) Wood Society of Scotland the appropriate time period. Shierglas Ghlo Guay kilometres of the River Spey floodplain KINGUSSIE Highland Folk & Visitor Centre (disused Highland between Kingussie and Kincraig in A flavour of how Highland folk lived Quarry hills Station Ornate Rotmell Wildlife Park Museum (25mins) and worked from s to the s (15mins) branch line Birnam Badenoch and Strathspey. It is said to be Dalwhinnie River Truim Killiecrankie Gorge to Aberfeldy) (disused) Victorian Farm Dunkeld CARRBRIDGE Strathspey Steam one of the most important wetland areas Distillery (see picture to the left) Railway steading Polney Railway in Europe, supporting populations of Ruthven Barracks Glen Truim and Soldier’s Leap Bridge Crag Brigadier-General Alexander Grant Highland Folk Museum NEWTONMORE PITLOCHRY of Grant, Clan Chief, commissioned (2 mins) breeding waders including curlew, (25 mins) Moulinarn Kinnaird House DUNKELD lapwing, red shank and snipe.
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