West Highland Railway and The Jacobite, September 2022

A collection of photos when on holiday in Scotland with my friends Paul from Edinburgh and John from Tralee in Ireland. Sounds like the start of an Englishman, Scotchman and Irishman joke!!!
David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/H/Helensburgh_Upper'>Helensburgh Upper</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>The ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban and Mallaig, dividing at Crianlarich, calling at Helensburgh Upper on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. This view is looking back south towards Glasgow with the long, covered entrance ramp leading down from the overbridge. After two nights in Glasgow, my friends and I were on our way to Fort William for three nights, and which stay included a trip on 'The Jacobite' to Mallaig and back. 1/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Arrochar_and_Tarbet'>Arrochar and Tarbet</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>The ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban and Mallaig, dividing at Crianlarich with the Mallaig portion reversing at Fort William, calling at Arrochar & Tarbet station, looking north, on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. Unlike at Ardlui, the train is using the left-hand side of the island platform in the normal way, although no southbound train was booked to pass here, that had occurred at Ardlui where, unusually, the trains had crossed on the right. 2/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Ardlui'>Ardlui</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Ardlui station at the north end of Loch Lomond, looking north, with passengers alighting from the Mallaig portion of the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street (with the Oban portion being detached at Crianlarich) on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. On the left is a southbound service to Glasgow Queen Street; contrary to the normal British rule of passing on the left at stations on single track lines with passing loops, these trains unusually, are here crossing on the right. 3/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crianlarich'>Crianlarich</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>With joining passengers now safely aboard the Mallaig portion of the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street, and the Oban portion gone on its way, the train that will reverse at Fort William is ready to depart from Crianlarich on Wednesday 7th September 2022, here using the left hand platform at this crossing point in the usual way. 4/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crianlarich'>Crianlarich</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Just to the north of Crianlarich, the 1897 spur to the surviving western section of the Callander & Oban line diverges and descends. It was not regularly used by passenger trains until 1965 when the eastern section of the C & O through Killin Junction was closed. This view is from the Mallaig portion of the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street, reversing at Fort William, diverging away from the Oban line on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. We came back from Oban to Glasgow a week later after three nights in Fort William and four nights on the Isle of Mull. 5/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Upper_Tyndrum'>Upper Tyndrum</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Upper Tyndrum station, looking north, seen from the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig, reversing at Fort William, on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. 6/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bridge_of_Orchy'>Bridge of Orchy</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Bridge of Orchy station, seen from the Mallaig portion of the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street, looking north, calling on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. The train is calling at the right-hand side of the island platform, against the usual rule of passing on the left, though no southbound train was booked to pass here at this time. 7/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Rannoch'>Rannoch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Rannoch station, with its exhibition and refreshment rooms, looking north from the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig, reversing at Fort William, on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. This northbound train is calling at the right-hand side of the island platform, against the normal left hand rule. 8/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Corrour'>Corrour</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Corrour station, near the summit of the line, looking back south from the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig, reversing at Fort William, on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. This is the most isolated station on the West Highland Line with no (public) road access. The old signal box now serves as holiday accommodation and in which somebody has taken up residence. 9/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tulloch'>Tulloch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Tulloch station, looking back south from the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig, reversing at Fort William, calling on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. This is the first station on the line north of Glasgow with two side platforms unlike the stations with island platforms that have gone before. 10/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Roy_Bridge'>Roy Bridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>The ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig, reversing at Fort William, calling at Roy Bridge on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. This station was formerly a crossing loop, long abandoned, but the disused platform is still there, out of view on the right. 11/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Spean_Bridge'>Spean Bridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>A solitary passenger leaves the ex-12.22 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig, reversing at Fort William, at Spean Bridge on Wednesday, 7th September 2022. This station opened with the West Highland Line in 1894 and from 1903 became the junction for a branch that ran north through the Great Glen to Fort Augustus where it terminated on a pier by Loch Ness. The passenger service on that line only lasted until 1933 and it was completely abandoned in 1947. 12/18</p><p>07/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Fort_William'>Fort William</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>66746 bringing the empty stock of a chartered excursion into Fort William, at lunchtime on Thursday, 8th September 2022. 13/18</p><p>08/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Fort_William'>Fort William</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Stanier Black 5 Class 4-6-0 no. 45212, named after Sir William Stanier (1876-1965), at Fort William station waiting to depart with the 12.50 service of 'The Jacobite' to Mallaig, on Thursday, 8th September 2022. This locomotive, originally no. 5212, was constructed by the firm of Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1935. The 4 was added by British Railways at Nationalisation in 1948 and the locomotive saw a further 20 years in regular service before being withdrawn in 1968. Going on the Jacobite had been on my bucket list since seemingly time began! 14/18</p><p>08/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Morar'>Morar</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Mallaig_Extension_West_Highland_Railway'>Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)</a></small></p><p>The neat and tidy waiting shelter at Morar, seen from 'The Jacobite' passing on its way to Mallaig, on the afternoon of Thursday, 8th September 2022. 15/18</p><p>08/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mallaig'>Mallaig</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Mallaig_Extension_West_Highland_Railway'>Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)</a></small></p><p>LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 no. 45212 just arrived at the terminus at Mallaig, with 'The Jacobite' from Fort William, on the afternoon of Thursday, 8th September 2022. 16/18</p><p>08/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Glenfinnan'>Glenfinnan</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Mallaig_Extension_West_Highland_Railway'>Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)</a></small></p><p>'The Jacobite', behind Stanier Black 5 no. 45212, returning from Mallaig to Fort William passing Glenfinnan station, on the afternoon of Thursday, 8th September 2022. The train stopped here for half an hour or so on the outward journey. 17/18</p><p>08/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Fort_William_1st'>Fort William [1st]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway'>West Highland Railway</a></small></p><p>Looking towards the site of the original Fort William station, closed and demolished in 1975 to make way for the A82 road to act as a diversion for the High Street, which was then pedestrianised. It was replaced by a new station 700 yards to the north which has no architectural merit whatsoever. 18/18</p><p>09/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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