Advantages: a nice day out, nostalgia, Disadvantages: too expensive, stops too long in Mallaig
The viaduct in the picture is famous for featuring in the Harry Potter films where the Hogwarts express travels.
Inevitably, this means that the train now attracts tourists from all over the world as the Harry Potter train.
Therefore booking is essential to get on it. We booked the day before and when we got there they were turning people away.
JACOBITE STEAM TRAIN
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The track runs from Fort William to Mallaig and is an 82 mile round trip. The journey passes through some fantastic countryside and old stations, coming to stop at Mallaig for around 1.5 hours. This is long enough to have lunch, which is about all you can do in Mallaig anyway!
COST
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Adult Day Return £27 (First Class £40)
Child Day Return £15.50 (First Class £20)
The train leaves Fort William at 10.20am ...
Advantages: The interview Disadvantages: Not as good as it should be
to stop running and just comes to an unceremonious halt. You are shown steam trains (where are they? What are they?) but you are given no details about their location, what they are used for, etc., which was, I thought, very disappointing.
Various steamlocomotives in stages of dishabille, obviously ready for maintenance work, were seen waiting. But where? It is clearly a preserved line, but if we were told, it was when the commentary was beaten by a combination of various noises off. The titles revealed that it was a preserved line in Gloucestershire. Interestingly, we are also shown a collection if preserved diesel locomotives.
The next scene was recorded at the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire. This was interesting, as it gave a rare opportunity to look at a wide-ranging collection of industrial locomotives and goods trucks ...
Advantages: Great story, Cajuns Disadvantages: Not one to watch over and over
Southern Comfort is not just the name of the most effeminate of whiskeys (for true men like their?s burning and horrible tasting) it?s also a 1981 film by Walter Hill director of The Warriors.
The film follows a small squad of Louisiana National Guard on a training exercise through the Louisiana swamp lands - the bayou. It?s a friendly crew of men all casual about their duty and not taking the exercise completely seriously. The cool guy of the team, Spencer (played by Keith Carradine), has arranged for some prostitutes to meet them at the end of the trail so they?re all keen to get it over with.
Things progress pretty normally until their commander, Poole, seems to have got them lost. They?re at the edge of deep lake/river/big water thing with no way across. Luckily, they spot some boats beside a poachers den. The allure of some ...
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