Author: Dave Benjamin

#TheJacobite #BeasdaleBank #WestHighlandLine It’s probably an indulgence. It feels like an addiction. And twice a year it is some sort of pilgrimage. To the land of ‘proper steam’, where regular steam trains from Fort William to Mallaig operate usually every day between mid-Spring and the end of October. On most days there are two services – and between around 1015 and 6pm the hills, mountains and glens echo to the bark of a Black Five doing what it was designed to do. Seven-coach trains now carry hundreds of visitors and tourists(and a large Harry Potter fan contingent). But for me…