This is true for every episode, but I just want to emphasise again how much I'm enjoying this series. A great railway and travel documentary that would give Michael Portillo a run for his money. Beautifully shot as always, but of course it wouldn't be the same without the two great hosts who guide us through each step of this adventure. I think I can say this on behalf of most people watching: thank you for embarking on this trip for us.
What I find totally mind blowing is if this series, All the Stations, had been produced by the BBC, the only difference would be cost. Production values would be little different, but the number of hours produced must equate to millions of pounds in BBC budgeting terms.
neatodd if it was BBC, there would be half a carriage full of crew. Has the series suffered without? Has it hell - 21st century documentary filmmaking at its blistering best 😀🍾🎥
They would probably, like you, also forget to mention that Transpennine Express has the youngest fleet in Britain, and that hundreds of new carriages for Scotrail, Northern, Transpennine and Merseyrail are on order.
I was doing the trip Glasgow - Mallaig - Kyle - Inverness about two weeks earlier and I was enjoying the Kyle of Lochalsh line completly with sunny weather. Showing your trip in 2021 brings back beautiful memories...
My missus and I have enjoyed this series better than most TV programmes...we've religiously been watching the latest episodes over dinner! If you guys don't get snapped up by the BBC for a series, I'll be really surprised. Great job Geoff and Vicky.
You definitely came prepared for a typical Scottish summer. The Glenfinnan Viaduct is one of most beautiful sights in the whole of Scotland if not the UK.
I've got it, what Geoff and Vicki can do next! All the Nations! They visit ever single country on earth and Vicki rates them for quaintness. And castles.
I'm going on the Jacobite Stream Train for my birthday in December and seeing it in this video has made me unbelievably exciting! I'm glad you enjoyed Scotland, I have lived here for 20 years for and it still amazes me!
Brian_D Yes, you always "take your chances" with the weather up there!! Fortunately I've done both the West Highland Line and the Kyle Line in brilliant sunshine, I had to have several attempts though!!
Ian Mcclavin if you take the west highland line in the winter, the snow is amazing between rannoch and corrour. I live in Fort William and have to travel every year. It’s beautiful.
That drone shot. I know there are dozens of other people saying the same thing, but there aren't enough words to say how wonderful and fortuitously timed that drone shot was.
You probably know this by now but one of the viaducts you crossed in this episode (Loch nan Uamh Viaduct) before Arisaig has now got a plaque on it commemorating a dead working horse and cart which fell into a collumn during construction and the workers just left it and encased it in concrete. it was local legends for decades but only proved at the turn of the century.
Hello There, this is a great video, it looks like a very scenic route, thank you for sharing this, it's much appreciated, I am glad you had a good time and that you both enjoyed yourselves. Cheers Peter :)
Dan: immediately saw your cutting style, great work… audio track matched beautifully. Your mastery gave the show robustness and richer content. Remarkable Package (!!)
Last year I took the train from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh and I totally recommend it, astonishing throughout the whole 2 and a half hour of the journey. And I was especially lucky to get a sunny day and see all the landscape in autumn colours.
Corrour is a special place. Lovely walk or run [when younger] round Loch Ossian, but be careful of nearby bogs [I know and was left wearing a pair of Scottish boxers on the station.
Hate to see this series move toward the end run. Thank you for sharing your adventure with the world. Looking forward to even better things in the future.
The Kyle Of Lochalsh line in Febuary is so stunning, snow covers all over the mountains and it's like I was transported to Canada, it's my favourite train journey so far.
Aye, no doubt...best video of the series! The drone shot of the viaduct, the scenery...it brings me back a wonderful bunch of awesome memories from my road trips around Scotland!! :-) Thanks guys for the amazing documentary! ^-^
You are right Geoff that's beautiful and your them music on the piano accompanies it very well, I could wath/list to that all day, well done and thank you :-)
Hello Geoff and Vicki from an Australian "trainspotter" !!! I'm so looking forward to seeing all this first-hand in August! Thanks for your #allthescottishstations series - it's a big help to my planning!!! :-) :-)
When I was on the line to Kyle 10 years ago, it was rainy too. Its probably been raining ever since. 🙂 loved that journey as an American tourist to Skye. Most beautiful rail line over there. Rob
such a pity we no longer have the only railway in the Hebrides (a 3-stop run single track, micro-gauge, Craignour Ferry Terminal to Duart-Castle Gardens)
All the scenery is beautiful. Especially the viaduct scene. Scotland is a beautiful country. While serving in the U.S. Navy I spent some time in the country.
That conductor at the beginning asking if they had tickets and where they were going. You'd think everyone working for the British rail system would know who Geoff and Vicki are at this point. Also, Geoff on that short platform at the end: "Do we have a few minutes here?" You know that Geoff was just itching to whip out his . . . . tape measure.
I actually visited all these lines a few years ago while covering Scotland on a Freedom of Scotland ticket! You’re quite right to say that the scenery is ‘spectacular’, although I enjoyed slightly better weather conditions than your goodselves!
Love, love, LOVED it! Would've liked to have seen more request stops though. Surprised someone got on at Lochluichart. I would've thought Duncraig or Attadale would've been more likely to be stopped at than Lochluichart. Considering the castle and gardens.
You missed Achnashellach station. Perhaps because it's a request stop? Maybe you'll visit on the request stop vlogs? But hey, what you and Vicki achieved is wonderful. Thank you.
You said it was the most scenic line in the UK, my favourite scenic line is the one from Abertawe/ Swansea to Porthladd Abergwaun/ Fishguard Harbour. That dry landscape is fantastic.
I would really love the sheet music for your theme tune, it's amazing!! If you ever come to stoke and they have the station pianos I could play it as you arrive 🤣🤣🤣
Ive done both the Ft William to Mallaig and the Localsh to Inverness, and I think the former just edges it in beauty. It may be down the fact I've done the Localsh line more than a dozen times. I've also had to be picked up at Inverness by my dad because of flooding and/or rock falls!
Really lovely video. I've travelled most of the line to Wick/Thurso but never done any of the lines in the North West of Scotland. It's clear I've been missing out! It looks such a wonderful journey that I must do it. Interesting diversion over to Skye, too. I do find that sleeper service quite interesting. A through train from London but it suddenly becomes a local service once it gets into northern Scotland. I do wonder, is this line the only one you can get directly on a train in London all year round that stops somewhere by request? The only other ones I can think of are the summer-only London Paddington to Pembroke services which I think also stop by request at some of the smaller stations like Saundersfoot.
Freeze frame at Stromferry and you can see the house we stayed in recently with a whole load of my family. A truly stunning area. Plockton, which you can see briefly on the journey, was amazing and so quaint, and you can rent the railway station building as a guest house!
6:15 you should have filmed the banavie swing bridge. Whenever a boat is coming down the canal and needs to pass under the bridge, the controller has to call scotrail and see if there is a train coming. In addition, it has a 5mph speed limit. A tv show called the biggest little railway is airing on channel 4 in 2018
Funny that you should mention about the Caramel Wafers because my cousin has returned to the UK this summer from Bangkok, Thailand. He left about 13 years ago to go work in China but managed to get a job working at a school in Bangkok and he met a Thai woman who he married and has now separated from but joining him in Scotland is their 7 year old daughter Ellie and she's just getting used to the UK and Scotland but of course what's one of her favourite things? You've guessed it, Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. So, I can understand Geoff's reaction to Vicky's suggestion about the taxi driver helping himself to their TCWs.
Fort William gets 1800mm of rain a year, one of the wettest places in the UK. I had to wait three whole days for the rain to stop! (but in a way the rain is part of the fun)
When the guard on the Caledonian Sleeper asked where you were travelling to you should have said.........all the stations!
Innit!
This is true for every episode, but I just want to emphasise again how much I'm enjoying this series. A great railway and travel documentary that would give Michael Portillo a run for his money. Beautifully shot as always, but of course it wouldn't be the same without the two great hosts who guide us through each step of this adventure. I think I can say this on behalf of most people watching: thank you for embarking on this trip for us.
4:54 Amazing shot of the viaduct. You must have the longest selfie-stick ever.
Drone
Jeff Ducklin joke
Jeff Ducklin r/wooooosh
@Clifford Quiney
Who are you calling a drone?!
What I find totally mind blowing is if this series, All the Stations, had been produced by the BBC, the only difference would be cost. Production values would be little different, but the number of hours produced must equate to millions of pounds in BBC budgeting terms.
Easy way to tell it's not the BBC - If it had been the BBC there would be a constant music track.
neatodd if it was BBC, there would be half a carriage full of crew. Has the series suffered without? Has it hell - 21st century documentary filmmaking at its blistering best 😀🍾🎥
Keith Spillett And a voice-over narrator trying to add dramatic tension to every scene.
TheSharkLord by the south you mean London, south west still only have pacers, we only just get over 2 carriages
They would probably, like you, also forget to mention that Transpennine Express has the youngest fleet in Britain, and that hundreds of new carriages for Scotrail, Northern, Transpennine and Merseyrail are on order.
The viaduct shot, absolutely beautiful, whoever got that oh my god you legend.
Geoff uses a REEEALLY long selfie stick that extends many feet into the air.
Nerdy Mr Nardy and that folks, is what we call GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY FOR THE BACKERS! (OK shouty PB moment over).😀
The trains, the ferry, the scenery, the people, Geoff and Vicki, Scotland, the weather. Best episode yet.
PS piano music hits you right in the feels
Vicki s face at the start when Geoff asks about a birthday present. ...priceless. She has such an expressive face.
I was doing the trip Glasgow - Mallaig - Kyle - Inverness about two weeks earlier and I was enjoying the Kyle of Lochalsh line completly with sunny weather. Showing your trip in 2021 brings back beautiful memories...
I'm loving revisitng these Scotland episodes.
My missus and I have enjoyed this series better than most TV programmes...we've religiously been watching the latest episodes over dinner! If you guys don't get snapped up by the BBC for a series, I'll be really surprised. Great job Geoff and Vicky.
The music for this whole series deserves an award. Spectacular.
Oh that drone shot of the Jacobite on the Glenfinnan is wonderful, superb work.
You definitely came prepared for a typical Scottish summer.
The Glenfinnan Viaduct is one of most beautiful sights in the whole of Scotland if not the UK.
3:24 There's a steam train and you're getting a taxi, is something wrong with you two?
4:55 OK, I take that back!
I've got it, what Geoff and Vicki can do next! All the Nations! They visit ever single country on earth and Vicki rates them for quaintness. And castles.
AndreiTupolev Even North Korea
And the local Pacers ofcourse!
I think they may struggle to find castles in Nauru and the Maldives 😀
Sadly there are a few nations that are just too dangerous to step foot in.
Errrr...maybe...wars?
I get the impression that Vicki is falling in love with Scotland.
I'm going on the Jacobite Stream Train for my birthday in December and seeing it in this video has made me unbelievably exciting! I'm glad you enjoyed Scotland, I have lived here for 20 years for and it still amazes me!
Brilliant in every way - Scotland is such a beautiful country even when the weather isn't the best.
Brian_D Yes, you always "take your chances" with the weather up there!! Fortunately I've done both the West Highland Line and the Kyle Line in brilliant sunshine, I had to have several attempts though!!
Ian Mcclavin if you take the west highland line in the winter, the snow is amazing between rannoch and corrour. I live in Fort William and have to travel every year. It’s beautiful.
Love corrur wish to go there dream station lovely commenta
Even more stunning. Ace dronage!
What a view at the end !!! 😍💕
I liked this film so much I forgot to press like until I watched it again, cheerio!
That drone shot. I know there are dozens of other people saying the same thing, but there aren't enough words to say how wonderful and fortuitously timed that drone shot was.
You probably know this by now but one of the viaducts you crossed in this episode (Loch nan Uamh Viaduct) before Arisaig has now got a plaque on it commemorating a dead working horse and cart which fell into a collumn during construction and the workers just left it and encased it in concrete. it was local legends for decades but only proved at the turn of the century.
It just proves that with care man can improve nature. Without the viaduct it would just be another glen. With it, the scene is spectacular.
Spot the jakey on the bicycle, can of open stella in hand.
I'm loving these Scottish episodes. The Highlands are so beautiful, even when it rains.
...which is a good thing given how much it does so! (One of the places I grew up was Lochcarron. That line is very special.)
Fantastisch video again! Can't believe this is going to end soon...
I rode the train from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh. This video brought back some good memories.
Great Ambassadors for Scottish Tourist Board. Fantastic journey of Great Britain.
Hello There, this is a great video, it looks like a very scenic route, thank you for sharing this, it's much appreciated, I am glad you had a good time and that you both enjoyed yourselves. Cheers Peter :)
Dan: immediately saw your cutting style, great work… audio track matched beautifully. Your mastery gave the show robustness and richer content. Remarkable Package (!!)
Beautiful scenery and it just gets better and better !
This might be the best of the whole series. Fantastic!
Great episode! The steam train on the viaduct is the winning scene, but, then, I like steam and engineering.
Staggeringly beautiful scenery. Another fantastic video! Well done!
Last year I took the train from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh and I totally recommend it, astonishing throughout the whole 2 and a half hour of the journey. And I was especially lucky to get a sunny day and see all the landscape in autumn colours.
Good stuff. Thank you for doing this for the benefit of all. A++
Centuries ago I trod those paths too.
4:54, the drone shot of the series. The Jacobite on the Glenfinnan. That's what I wanted to see. Well done guys, well done!
Corrour is a special place. Lovely walk or run [when younger] round Loch Ossian, but be careful of nearby bogs [I know and was left wearing a pair of Scottish boxers on the station.
Incredible scenery throughout. The shot and drone footage of Glenfinnan Viaduct were astounding. And I saw 45212 on its way to Grosmont last week.
Hate to see this series move toward the end run. Thank you for sharing your adventure with the world. Looking forward to even better things in the future.
The Kyle Of Lochalsh line in Febuary is so stunning, snow covers all over the mountains and it's like I was transported to Canada, it's my favourite train journey so far.
Amazing footage in this episode - great job guys
Aye, no doubt...best video of the series! The drone shot of the viaduct, the scenery...it brings me back a wonderful bunch of awesome memories from my road trips around Scotland!! :-) Thanks guys for the amazing documentary! ^-^
One of the best episodes so far! Loved it!
That drone shot over the viaduct was something to behold. Splendid work showing it off in all its grandeur!
You are right Geoff that's beautiful and your them music on the piano accompanies it very well, I could wath/list to that all day, well done and thank you :-)
Vicki's comment at the end is spot on.
Spectacular scenes. Well done!
Hello Geoff and Vicki from an Australian "trainspotter" !!! I'm so looking forward to seeing all this first-hand in August! Thanks for your #allthescottishstations series - it's a big help to my planning!!! :-) :-)
The best episode of the best documentary series in the history of the audio-visual arts, and all on the lowest of all budgets!
Glorious - it's stunning even in rubbish weather! (We were up in Scotland that week and the weather was sometimes 'trying') but it didn't matter!
When I was on the line to Kyle 10 years ago, it was rainy too. Its probably been raining ever since. 🙂 loved that journey as an American tourist to Skye. Most beautiful rail line over there. Rob
such a pity we no longer have the only railway in the Hebrides (a 3-stop run single track, micro-gauge, Craignour Ferry Terminal to Duart-Castle Gardens)
I recognized so much of the scenery from my trip three months ago. It felt like it was yesterday :)
Scotland is mind blowing! Love the drone shot 5:11
Another fantastic video. That drone shot was just brilliant
All the scenery is beautiful. Especially the viaduct scene. Scotland is a beautiful country. While serving in the U.S. Navy I spent some time in the country.
Just awesome relaxing videos, keep up the great work
The episode I was waiting for, I knew it would be the best. My wife and I will go-her grandfather was a highlander.
Brilliant video.
Just gorgeous!
Gorgeous even on a grey day! I hold hope I can still get to Scotland.
Just when you think it can't get any better 😉 when I'm next in Uk I'll have to take the train to Scotland 👍the stations are so beautiful
That conductor at the beginning asking if they had tickets and where they were going. You'd think everyone working for the British rail system would know who Geoff and Vicki are at this point. Also, Geoff on that short platform at the end: "Do we have a few minutes here?" You know that Geoff was just itching to whip out his . . . . tape measure.
This might literally be the best cold open of them all
I actually visited all these lines a few years ago while covering Scotland on a Freedom of Scotland ticket! You’re quite right to say that the scenery is ‘spectacular’, although I enjoyed slightly better weather conditions than your goodselves!
Love, love, LOVED it! Would've liked to have seen more request stops though. Surprised someone got on at Lochluichart. I would've thought Duncraig or Attadale would've been more likely to be stopped at than Lochluichart. Considering the castle and gardens.
Absolutely brilliant,am loving this,i just want to get off at one of the stations and disappear into the wilderness,my soul needs it!
Blown away!
You missed Achnashellach station. Perhaps because it's a request stop? Maybe you'll visit on the request stop vlogs?
But hey, what you and Vicki achieved is wonderful. Thank you.
Steam train over the viaduct, just beautifully stunning, well done.
You said it was the most scenic line in the UK, my favourite scenic line is the one from Abertawe/ Swansea to Porthladd Abergwaun/ Fishguard Harbour. That dry landscape is fantastic.
Corrour definitely deserved The Ultimate Tick. Absolutely beautiful.
I've seen the Kyle of lochalsh-Inverness line in the sun when I did a train trip with my dad
I would really love the sheet music for your theme tune, it's amazing!! If you ever come to stoke and they have the station pianos I could play it as you arrive 🤣🤣🤣
OMG !! Even on a grey wet day the scenery you shot was stunning !! It is easy to see why Vicky is lost for (intelligible) words !!
OMGosh! You truly do live in a Green and Pleasant Land
Would recommend doing the Kyle line in autumn if yous get a chance, the colours of Achnashellach Forest for example are just gorgeous 💘
Ive done both the Ft William to Mallaig and the Localsh to Inverness, and I think the former just edges it in beauty. It may be down the fact I've done the Localsh line more than a dozen times. I've also had to be picked up at Inverness by my dad because of flooding and/or rock falls!
Really lovely video. I've travelled most of the line to Wick/Thurso but never done any of the lines in the North West of Scotland. It's clear I've been missing out! It looks such a wonderful journey that I must do it. Interesting diversion over to Skye, too. I do find that sleeper service quite interesting. A through train from London but it suddenly becomes a local service once it gets into northern Scotland. I do wonder, is this line the only one you can get directly on a train in London all year round that stops somewhere by request? The only other ones I can think of are the summer-only London Paddington to Pembroke services which I think also stop by request at some of the smaller stations like Saundersfoot.
I cannot for the life of me work out why I find this so fascinating.
Freeze frame at Stromferry and you can see the house we stayed in recently with a whole load of my family. A truly stunning area. Plockton, which you can see briefly on the journey, was amazing and so quaint, and you can rent the railway station building as a guest house!
This is so good. Could have been even longer shot sequences, loved it.
This is in serious competition with the Cambrian coastline as my favourite video
Two of the most scenic rail journeys in Britain - in one day!
6:15 you should have filmed the banavie swing bridge. Whenever a boat is coming down the canal and needs to pass under the bridge, the controller has to call scotrail and see if there is a train coming. In addition, it has a 5mph speed limit.
A tv show called the biggest little railway is airing on channel 4 in 2018
Kyle is my local station
you guys im crying atm wow.........
Funny that you should mention about the Caramel Wafers because my cousin has returned to the UK this summer from Bangkok, Thailand. He left about 13 years ago to go work in China but managed to get a job working at a school in Bangkok and he met a Thai woman who he married and has now separated from but joining him in Scotland is their 7 year old daughter Ellie and she's just getting used to the UK and Scotland but of course what's one of her favourite things?
You've guessed it, Tunnocks Caramel Wafers.
So, I can understand Geoff's reaction to Vicky's suggestion about the taxi driver helping himself to their TCWs.
Oh yes, the Glenfinnan viaduct. Fantastic.
I might have to #haveanadventure to Kyle of Localsh. Brilliant, beautiful. Thank you.
Lovely, you got a shot of the postbox in Glenfinnan.
Great trip as usual. Anybody could say if the post office on Skye has an foreign exchange?
Long dark winter evenings … mainstream tv not very entertaining … so nice to dip back into “All the stations”
The cut in the middle of the pan at Skye was pretty good.
Interesting to see the Ye Old Virgin Trains colours on the last carriage.
They crammed a lot of "trainage" into that day - and almost totally missed out on taking in the Isle of Skye...
I was there on 13/Aug/2017! Only missed you by two or three days! If only I’d known! 😰
Fort William gets 1800mm of rain a year, one of the wettest places in the UK. I had to wait three whole days for the rain to stop! (but in a way the rain is part of the fun)