It may be a month since Robert and I spent a week riding Scotland’s railways, but the memories are still strong. Such as…

Kyle of Lochalsh station

I’d got a sense of how enchantingly remote and enticingly melancholy this place might be from Michael Palin’s 1980 Great Railway Journey for BBC2, where he travelled all the way from Euston to Kyle in order to collect a frankly preposterous piece of signage.

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