Last day

Daughter One was going walking with friends today, so after she'd left to meet them the remaining threesome set off for Grantown on Spey to visit the old abandoned station which is now an information room and shop, together with a couple of dining cars used as a restaurant. We were treated to a history of all the disused lines of NE Scotland by a friendly and helpful volunteer, immaculately dressed and wearing a smart waistcoat in the appropriate tartan.

We came back to Nethy for lunch in the local cafe and while the ladies walked back to the Lodge I set off to Carrbridge to see the old pack bridge, built in 1717 and just upstream of the modern road bridge. The sun was rather too low to light up the bridge, but there was nothing I could do about that! I popped in to the old station at Broomhill on the way back, now on the restored Speyside Line, but used as Glenbogle Station in the TV series, 'Monarch of the Glen'. A man on a bike filled me in on the history of the line and as the sun sank below the clouds I drove back to Nethy.

Quote of the Day:

The less one appears to know the more one learns. G.M.Dyott - 'On the Trail of the Unknown'.