Review
'Don't even think of boarding the train without a copy', 'well-researched & easily digestible' RailStaff. 'Probably the best value boook on the market' Outlook magazine
Product Description
Published in collaboration with ScotRail, Highland Rail Partnership, SPT, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, EWS, Railtrack Scotland, Alcan & Freightliner to celebrate the centenary of the completion of the Mallaig Extension. The guide features full colour photographs of the area, an entertaining commentary with points of interest and historical details, along with maps of the routes travelled.
From the Publisher
A user-friendly guide to the famously scenic West Highland railway routes: Glasgow to Fort William, Mallaig and Oban.
Featuring detailed one inch to the mile maps of the route accompanied by an entertaining commentary.
A historic introduction plus a Gazetteer of all the places served together with information on accomodation, eating out, shopping, things to do and places to visit are complimented by superb colour photographs.
From the Author
'One of the great railway journeys of the world' is an almost unnecessary accolade for the West Highland Lines - it's like saying: 'Ben Nevis - Britain's biggest mountain,' or 'Tunnock's Caramel wafers - the best biscuits ever made.' Not that it matters - this colourful guide book presents almost two hundred miles of scenically unparalled train riding in an entertainingly stylish approach likely to appeal to tourists and train fans alike. Catering, in other words, for those who think of 'Glens' and 'Lochs' as natural elements of the landscape, and those who know better, recognising them as class names for two of the most successful and beautiful locomotive types ever to have travelled the Iron Road to the Isles.
About the Author
Michael Pearson is widely known for his canal and railway guide books, which share a unique sympathy for topography with a painstaking flair for research and a disarmingly equivocal sense of humour.
Scots by birth - albeit a lowlander - this book reflects his abiding passion for all things Caledonian and his deeply held belief that every wheel should have a flange.
He is very happily married, with two children, and lives in the English Midlands.
