Strathspey Railway

Website http://www.strathspeyrailway.co.uk/

Classification Railway

DescriptionYou may remember travelling to school or work or going on holiday behind a steam engine, when you were younger. You may be too young to remember when steam ran the trains throughout the country. Whatever your age come aboard The Strathspey Railway and relive the sights and sounds of the steam age – its part of your past, your heritage. Join the train at the beautifully restored Aviemore Station, the largest on the Highland Railway system outside Inverness. Pass the large locomotive shed (not open to the public) built in 1897 which is the railway’s main workshop.

This is where the line’s engines are lovingly restored and maintained by the Company’s craftsmen and volunteers of the Strathspey Railway Association, using the traditional skills of the engineer. You may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of some of the other locomotives as you pass by. On leaving Aviemore, relax, enjoy a snack or a dram or simply view the heather moorland and the Cairngorm Mountain range from the carriage window; scenes almost unchanged in a hundred years. Arrive at Boat of Garten, a village created by the coming of the old railway companies that served the area. See the driver and fireman tend to their engine. They may take on water and the fireman will prepare his fire for the journey onto Broomhill known to many as Glenbogle from the BBC TV Series "Monarch of the Glen".

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The AddressAviemore Railway Station, Dalfaber Road, Aviemore, PH22 1PY

Phone01479 810725

DateOct 19, 2006

Contact NameStrathspey Railway Co

CategoryScotland > Highlands

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