We were due to go to Brackley today to explore a little more about bus routes with frayed ends, but a delightful story found space on the BBC News web site over the weekend. fbb has been able to expand and embellish the story with more local information.
The item concerned the Cluitt family, mum, dad and four children aged 6, 8, 10 and 12.
They were enjoying a "get away from it all" (and how!) holiday in Scotland, here on the shores of Loch Eilt.
Notice first the A830 road, the loch and then the railway line to Mallaig (off the map extract, left) with Glenfinnan and Lochailort stations. Also notice the barely existing settlement of Ranochan.
The family were occupying the Essan bothy (lower left).
There is no road nearby, so access is not easy!
Thus the family parked at Ranochan from where you may be able to make out the luxurious residence across the water.
Railway bridge lower left, bothy the grey blob at the foot of the wooded glen on the right.
They set off by canoe ...
... paddling under the railway bridge ...
... and parking the boat just outside the back door. (Bothy bottom left with trees, bridge upper right)
Mt Cluitt takes up the story.
There was no safe route out for young children so it was necessary to phone Police and/or Mountain Rescue. (Thankfully the family had a signal; fbb guesses the bothy did not have a land line!)
Showing heaps of initiative the boys-in-blue solved the crisis in a neat and joyous way. Thy arranged for a train to stop.
But not any train.
It was the Jacobite steam excursion train that gave them a lift!
They were conveyed in glorious luxury all the way (!) to the small but beautifully formed Lochailort Station ...
... where they alighted all smiles and gratitude ...
... and dispatched dad to hitch a lift back to Ranochan to collect the car.
All ended happily every after; but with two questions.
1. Has anyone found the Cluitt's canoe?
2. Will it be Butlins next year?
The Jacobite train runs between Fort William and Mallaig ...
... and is steam-hauled.
One of the scenic highlights is, of course, superb views of the Essan bothy!
... although, strangely, the official blurb fails to mention this.
Described as the greatest railway journey in the world, this 84 mile round trip takes you past a list of impressive extremes. Starting near the highest mountain in Britain, Ben Nevis, it visits Britain’s most westerly mainland railway station, Arisaig; passes close by the deepest freshwater loch in Britain, Loch Morar and the shortest river in Britain, River Morar, finally arriving next to the deepest seawater loch in Europe, Loch Nevis!
Herewith, however, a picture of the Jacobite on the celebrated Glenfinnan viaduct with Loch Eilt in the background.
Apparently Professor Albus Dumbledore is buried on an Island in Loch Eilt.
Back to schedule tomorrow.
Next Brackley blog : Tuesday 17th October
Reading back on Saturday's blog, FBB rightly illustrates the problem of out of date on-line information from "non-core" sources though perhaps a little harsh. They did put the link to Traveline for the requisite timetables. The narrative though does seem to relate to the old 8/89 service pattern - hence the reference to Weston Favell and the old route to Bicester (enabling onward travel to Oxford).
ReplyDeleteOf course, out of date information is a perennial issue - check http://my.viewranger.com/route/details/MjNfMzQ1Mw== where the public transport is allegedly United (replaced by Arriva in 1998) on a route that Arriva gave up at least five years ago!
That said, the villages betwixt and between Frome and Radstock have First's 184 timetables - over 2 years since they pulled out, showing the wrong times and indeed, a Saturday service that the council didn't replace. Duff info is duff info, irrespective of the source!!
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