I'm a bus driver in East Anglia and we have stops like that, just flag it down and it will stop :) un-signposted stops are the norm in rural country areas :)
The problem with a l;ot of the services in the Highlands, you have no idea what colour/livery coach will turn up. A Citylink is easy to spot but, like in this case, it could be just about anything. There are usually plenty of tour coaches on the road, just to confuse things further. With local knowledge, it 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 works OK 𝒃𝒖𝒕 ............................... 😁 When it's one of only a couple of services, it can be a wee bit of a gamble for a visitor😁.
It wouldn't have surprised me if the driver of the bus didn't know a stop actually existed there, especially if few people use it. I have known such a stop in Sheffield city centre that was marked on a map for and for many weeks had no flag. Few drivers seemed to know that one existed and they got confused when passengers actually asked for it. I got onto the local authority and it soon got sorted. The least that could be done there is for a flag on one side of the road stating its for both directions (I have used two stops like this). What you describe is more likely to be hail and ride - sections of route where buses can be flagged down anywhere that it is safe to do rather than an actual marked stop (even if they also exist on such a section of route).
it's a different sort of rural there. I remember when I was out on the bike there was a peacock in the middle of the road in rush hour holding up the bus somewhere ( Mattishall I think ) and a duck and ducklings doing the same thing during rush hour at Sutton Bridge when I was on the 505 to Spalding.
Similar system in Denmark, the rules are basically, "Outside of a city zone, any area more than 600 meters away from a bus stop, is a hail and ride zone by default," which is a nice and elegant system.
@@caw25sha I can imagine Geoff hailing the bus down and the driver floores the brake pedal, tires screetching and smoking, the bus turning a little sideways on the road, and when finally stopped, rocking a bit.
Been to both these stations. Always a bit nervous when the train's approaching in case it flies past. As for Shiel Buses, they will usually stop if you flag them down and there's a space for the bus to pull in. You can also phone/email them in advance and tell them where you'll be.
Quite correct. I've also flagged down a Citylink service in the back of beyond in Scotland at a non-stop and been dropped off at the end of the drive to a friend's house.
The crossing to nothing at Lochailort looks very much like it's actually a road rail access point (RRAP) for on-railing and off-railing on track plant for maintenance jobs.
Watched this laughing Geoff as this is my territory! Lochailort is my local station. Yes, I can only think of two or three bus stops beyond Corpach - you do just flag it down. Just a point about Locheilside - it is the railhead station for the communities on the vast peninsulas of Morven and Sunart, the A861 road which leads to these has it's junction with the road you were on just a few hundred yards further along. The gate at Lochailort station is also there for a barely visible footpath which drops steeply onto the back of the disused platform - it is so overgrown it is never noticed.
Very nice Geoff, very interesting to see these request stops. Nice to see these trains, living in London, I don’t see much of these local small trains. Can’t say they are my favourite but I still like to see them.
A very beautiful structure, with that curving & rolling shot of the train moving along...brilliant. Sounds like a new topic of exploration, “The Railway Viaducts & Bridges of Scotland”.
Hiya Geoff! You've inspired me to make some videos about my local trains! We don't have any request stops, but we have a great deal of fun abandoned train lines.
One of the holidays I was planning this summer prior to the pandemic was a trip to Fort William on the train, from Manchester to Glasgow change and get the train on to Fort William, admire the views on the way, stay for a couple of days doing a couple of trips on the train and then stay in Glasgow for a couple of days before going home again, hopefully next year 🤞
7:40 Ah, the dreaded noise you get when you tap your Metrolink smart card on the machine [same readers here in Manchester] and realise it has expired...and you have forgotten to renew it. 😀
@@caw25sha Not *quite* the same system in Manchester as Oyster. There's no PAYG option with the 'Get Me There' card (but you can do PAYG with a contactless bank card). The 'Get Me There' card can be used to store travel cards, weekly, monthly, annual tickets etc. Don't get me started on the utter mess that is the ticketing in Greater Manchester.....
@@Karlinski73 Get Me There I believe uses the glorious system that it ITSO. If someone ever offers you the specification to read, decline and run as far away as you can
Nostalgia! In summer of 1965 I was young student hitch-hiking from Mallaig to Glasgow. Gave up the effort at Lochailort and took the steam train to Fort William. Late arrival at FW..asked at police station for advice and understanding officer flagged down a van for me and requested ride to Glasgow. Which was granted by the friendly Scots driver! Never forgotten trip..
You’re only not allowed to sit two abreast on the bench, which is why the poster is offset to the right. Nearly every bench on the system has at least one of them. But most platform shelters are out of use across the ScotRail network. The West Highland Extension is a beautiful line, even in a Sprinter. Went from Fort William to Mallaig and back on a Christmas Eve a couple of years back. Just me, my wife and another passenger with her son, along with the driver, guard and catering host. We all went to Mallaig from the Fort and a few hours later (after some lunch and a couple of pints in a pub by a roaring fire) we all went home again. Lovely day out.
I was up here myself last week to do The Jacobite! I was wondering what was at some of those smaller stations I passed through so thank you for showing us!
"I've been here before". 🙄. Oh, ok it's not an ATS gag! Lovely video but it brings me a little sadness. I often like to get the sleeper from Edinburgh to Fort William as a day trip & really enjoy then going to Mallaig. It's quite a long journey for a day trip but the scenery is beautiful and I prefer Spring & Autumn as it's less busy. In fact that was my last journey prior to lock down & I haven't been able to do it since.😞 So I shall live vicariously though your video🙂👍
Was, it isn't now. My parents live next to the outward bound and I remember it being built in 1985 when i was a kid and having to request it numerous times coming back from uni, It swapped with Locheilside as the request stop as its more frequently used. (though less than Lochailort which I'm surprised is a request stop now)
The barrow point that you pointed out is actually a road rail vehicle access point. It’s where they put the road rail vehicles onto the tracks when doing maintenance works.
It’s probably why there is a large car park too, it must be a strategic point along the line for doing work! You need 3 sleeper lengths to put on a road rail vehicle so any crossing smaller than that is unusable 😊
hi geoff, i remember lots of stations in sussex in the early 60s which were like this. not crowded, it was a joy to travel then with no do gooder annoucements coming through on the train or station.!
9:10 Aha - we are going to see an old photo of a younger Geoff... 9:45 Aw - no we are not... 9:50 Ooh - Is Geoff going to slip in a photoshopped version of what's in his memory? 10:00 No !! Missed opportunity there, Geoff...
Pretty well anywhere in rural Scotland you can request a bus to stop for you, by signalling like you do at a rail request stop. Just pick a spot where the bus can stop safely, not just after a bend for example. Even Citylink long-distance buses will stop in areas where no formal stop is provided. And we don't use the word 'coach' except for things drawn by horses!
I know this is a year old but i can answer the question of why these stations exist. On the west highland line pretty much all the stations that seem to be nowhere are near highland estates and non residentual staff would use them to get back and forth to work, when the A830 was built it was single track all the way from Fort William to Mallaig and the trains were much faster all the way to the 80's! Locheilside station and Lochailort station are also located at the two junctions to get down to the Ardnamurchan and Moidart peninsulas so they would be the loading points for goods too. Beasdale is near Arisaig house Lochailort near the sadly now derelict Inverailort house and estates towards Acharacle Locheilside served Fassfern estate as well as Duisky etc on the south side of the loch. it used to be further along the loch too iirc. Glenfinnan served Glenfinnan estate, Arisaig Morar and Mallaig were just hamlets really though each have estates nearby too. Even going from Fort William to Glasgow Tulloch (Inverrair), Corrour, Rannoch and Bridge of Orchy are all near large highland estates too.
A fun video, thanks. Long time ago, when I was a small boy, Lochailort was home. And I can say, yes, there was a signal box at the north end - where tokens were exchanged.... Indeed there was a station building, two platforms and a bridge in those days. Pity it’s all gone. (And yes, you could do with some practice on the pronunciation. :) )
I actually used Lochailort on my coastal walk in this area. I was the only passenger getting on though someone did get on at Beasdale too (they were dropped off there by car, from where I don't know).
I got confused by the bench signs in Scotland recently too. The sign is in fact not for the whole bench but only for that side, so you could have sat on the other end but nobody else would have been allowed in it.
Lochailort has got a station, a pub hotel and the junction with the A861. It's the closest station to Ardnamurchan. I've gone on and off there on cycling tours.
8:11 Was it really that quiet there? That's amazingly tranquil! The thing about London is that 30 odd miles from say Marlylebone or Kings X by road to Amersham will be a constant conurbation, people, traffic, traffic lights, lamposts, constant buildings and hubub, but try that in Scotland and you'll soon be in the sticks. Even in the populated bit you'll soon enter that twiglight zone of existence, the no mans land between towns, slap right in the Buckie Triangle in Central Scotland, where strange things occur, Aliens land, Iron Bru is brud and Tunnocks happen. Another way to think of it is that busy road you were beside was busy because it was the only road (quite probably). The best way to sort the pronunciations is to ask a local. Failing that, as they tend to be scarce, look at the Gaelic original, which has obviously been anglicised to give you the current form, give up, and take an educated guess.
I've been pass those stations when I stayed over at Fort William for the Jacobite train as a late 21st Birthday present. Beautiful place. Shame Fort William is.....well, how to put this nicely......noticeably designed around bringing in as many tourists as possible.....
Aww, crap...would have loved to have seen you 19 years earlier to see what you looked like then and the car you had! Oh well...but, the 2nd station was very pretty.
The "not in use" sign was on one end of the bench, so you couldn't have 2 people on the bench at the same time. You could have sat at the other end. Most Scotrail stations have individual seats where the "in use" and "not in use" signs make more sense. For a bench a "one person only" sign would have been more appropriate.
What are you Londoners like? Of course there isn't a marked bus stop sign! Everybody knows that rural bus services in Scotland will stop at any safe point.... don't they?? Only, the entire highlands and islands would be a mass of rarely-used bus stop signs if it were otherwise, that would make it a lot less beautiful and away from it all. Besides, who in their right mind gets off a train in the middle of nowhere in order to get a bus to the same destination as the train was going to....?!!? Oh - and it's Loch - ay (as in May) - lort, I think - and definitely Loch -e(e)l - side!
@@samjeffs2700 NFC works in the same frequency range as HF RFID. The more likely issue is that your RFID reader doesn't support the MIFARE protocol the Oysters use, or you have one of the older cards.
@@AbsoluteTVYT the reason he probably can't access his oyster with his nfc reader is probably because MIFARE DESFire uses a proprietary encryption standard which isn't possible to crack without the key along with the specific application instructions for the program on the card which stores the ITSO stored travel rights
I'm a bus driver in East Anglia and we have stops like that, just flag it down and it will stop :) un-signposted stops are the norm in rural country areas :)
The problem with a l;ot of the services in the Highlands, you have no idea what colour/livery coach will turn up. A Citylink is easy to spot but, like in this case, it could be just about anything. There are usually plenty of tour coaches on the road, just to confuse things further. With local knowledge, it 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 works OK 𝒃𝒖𝒕 ............................... 😁
When it's one of only a couple of services, it can be a wee bit of a gamble for a visitor😁.
It wouldn't have surprised me if the driver of the bus didn't know a stop actually existed there, especially if few people use it. I have known such a stop in Sheffield city centre that was marked on a map for and for many weeks had no flag. Few drivers seemed to know that one existed and they got confused when passengers actually asked for it. I got onto the local authority and it soon got sorted. The least that could be done there is for a flag on one side of the road stating its for both directions (I have used two stops like this). What you describe is more likely to be hail and ride - sections of route where buses can be flagged down anywhere that it is safe to do rather than an actual marked stop (even if they also exist on such a section of route).
If you look at the actual pdf timetable of citylink it says the driver will stop anywhere as long it is safe to do so.
it's a different sort of rural there. I remember when I was out on the bike there was a peacock in the middle of the road in rush hour holding up the bus somewhere ( Mattishall I think ) and a duck and ducklings doing the same thing during rush hour at Sutton Bridge when I was on the 505 to Spalding.
There's a bus route just like that in Saddleworth
Lots of rural places here in Scotland have a ‘Hail and Ride’ bus service, where you can stop the bus anywhere on a section of road, no bus stop.
We used to have a similar system where I live till the buss company gutted the routes and left our town
Similar system in Denmark, the rules are basically, "Outside of a city zone, any area more than 600 meters away from a bus stop, is a hail and ride zone by default," which is a nice and elegant system.
If it isn't thundering past at 50mph
@@caw25sha I can imagine Geoff hailing the bus down and the driver floores the brake pedal, tires screetching and smoking, the bus turning a little sideways on the road, and when finally stopped, rocking a bit.
They do that in London as well
Rumour has it the ticket reader once accidentally 'read' the chip and Geoff was charged over £3,000 before he next tapped out in central London
TfL looks, "And that's what you get for causing all those headaches."
Hubby just said "Is that your train guy?" Can I watch too? 😄
Your video brought back lots of memories back, thank you!
Hi Geoff, Greetings from El Salvador 🇸🇻🇬🇧, I like your Railways and Tube Videos. And the railway stops in the middle of the countryside
Welcome back to the Scottish Highlands Geoff 🏴🏴🏴
welcome!!
I just watching your wonderful trip to corrour on this great scottish railway journeys again. Always worth a great watch again on Channel 4, thanks
Been to both these stations. Always a bit nervous when the train's approaching in case it flies past. As for Shiel Buses, they will usually stop if you flag them down and there's a space for the bus to pull in. You can also phone/email them in advance and tell them where you'll be.
Quite correct. I've also flagged down a Citylink service in the back of beyond in Scotland at a non-stop and been dropped off at the end of the drive to a friend's house.
The crossing to nothing at Lochailort looks very much like it's actually a road rail access point (RRAP) for on-railing and off-railing on track plant for maintenance jobs.
Passed through Lochailort on the train a couple of weeks ago, there was work being carried out on the platform.
I agree that that it looks like RRAP
Watched this laughing Geoff as this is my territory! Lochailort is my local station. Yes, I can only think of two or three bus stops beyond Corpach - you do just flag it down. Just a point about Locheilside - it is the railhead station for the communities on the vast peninsulas of Morven and Sunart, the A861 road which leads to these has it's junction with the road you were on just a few hundred yards further along. The gate at Lochailort station is also there for a barely visible footpath which drops steeply onto the back of the disused platform - it is so overgrown it is never noticed.
A nice wee video. Seriously impressed that you took the time to record yourself talking to your other camera!
Just what I needed, a wee trip to Scotland!
Very nice Geoff, very interesting to see these request stops. Nice to see these trains, living in London, I don’t see much of these local small trains. Can’t say they are my favourite but I still like to see them.
Cue the "man who famously visited all the stations admits to being at a station before" comments
I love the stunning scenery around Lochailort. I don't know why but railway stations always look so at home in such locations.
O-o-oh, for long time haven't been to Scotland. Many thanks for showing me Mallaig line!
I was NOT expecting the glenfinnan viaduct at the end, wow
It's a thing of beauty.
@@barvdw And made of concrete, which everyone loves to hate.😁
A very beautiful structure, with that curving & rolling shot of the train moving along...brilliant. Sounds like a new topic of exploration, “The Railway Viaducts & Bridges of Scotland”.
the harry potter bridge with the cortina?
Love the engine rumble of the Scotrail trains.
That's the sound of a 14 litre Cummins engine.
I live by a station called Posile park and park house and the 158 156 and the 170 are the only trains to run down the branch line
Cummins sucks.
Lovely editing, Geoff! Really enjoying these videos. There's something quite beautiful about old stations like those being kept open for use!
Currently sat in the sun at Locheilside. Look at what you have done Geoff, I’m ticking off Request stops - very pleasant! Thanks!
These request Stop videos are so relaxing. Scotland is so beautiful.
Hiya Geoff! You've inspired me to make some videos about my local trains! We don't have any request stops, but we have a great deal of fun abandoned train lines.
Geoff is one of the best things in life.
Hi Geoff, from a Scottish person, you pronounced it correctly 👌
The taxi ride edit reminded me of getting a taxi in Grand Theft Auto and skipping the taxi journey for some completely random reason!
K6 Kay Six did. cost more to skip
Scotland again! Been in this line before, it’s a beauty!
That was lovely Geoff - thank you very much for the wonderful film.
why do I love watching these so much
Just watching ‘yesterday’ and seen your Mrs on the telly Geoff!
What programme was it? :)
Absolutely love all these videos.
Thank you Josh! very kind.
Me too (and btw I watch your videos with happiness)
Great video. Love the typeface on the station name signs.
One of the holidays I was planning this summer prior to the pandemic was a trip to Fort William on the train, from Manchester to Glasgow change and get the train on to Fort William, admire the views on the way, stay for a couple of days doing a couple of trips on the train and then stay in Glasgow for a couple of days before going home again, hopefully next year 🤞
I love the effect you do with the train rolling in or out doubling over itself.
Southwesttrains merch and first scot rail merch!
Thanks for the video Jeff. Lovely part of the world!!😎🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧
7:40 Ah, the dreaded noise you get when you tap your Metrolink smart card on the machine [same readers here in Manchester] and realise it has expired...and you have forgotten to renew it. 😀
They expire? Oyster cards live forever, you just need to top them up.
@@caw25sha Not *quite* the same system in Manchester as Oyster. There's no PAYG option with the 'Get Me There' card (but you can do PAYG with a contactless bank card). The 'Get Me There' card can be used to store travel cards, weekly, monthly, annual tickets etc. Don't get me started on the utter mess that is the ticketing in Greater Manchester.....
@@Karlinski73 I see. I think!
I hate the get me there system, and don't understand how and why we pay so muchfor a worse service. Sorry angry northerner here
@@Karlinski73 Get Me There I believe uses the glorious system that it ITSO. If someone ever offers you the specification to read, decline and run as far away as you can
Nostalgia! In summer of 1965 I was young student hitch-hiking from Mallaig to Glasgow.
Gave up the effort at Lochailort and took the steam train to Fort William.
Late arrival at FW..asked at police station for advice and understanding officer flagged down a van for me and requested ride to Glasgow.
Which was granted by the friendly Scots driver!
Never forgotten trip..
Nice to see you out n about 👍
I’ve ridden this line on the steam train, this has to be one of the prettiest train rides in the world!!
4:52 The sign was right, the bench was 'not in use' at the time!
If Geoff had sat down, I wonder if the "not" would disappear.
You’re only not allowed to sit two abreast on the bench, which is why the poster is offset to the right. Nearly every bench on the system has at least one of them. But most platform shelters are out of use across the ScotRail network.
The West Highland Extension is a beautiful line, even in a Sprinter. Went from Fort William to Mallaig and back on a Christmas Eve a couple of years back. Just me, my wife and another passenger with her son, along with the driver, guard and catering host. We all went to Mallaig from the Fort and a few hours later (after some lunch and a couple of pints in a pub by a roaring fire) we all went home again. Lovely day out.
Very nice, Geoff. Stay safe and well.
Geoff that was the back of the back of beyond. Great stations though and great memory.
Nice to see you up North again Geoff keep the videos varied for your " not Londoners " & I can watch every one.
I was up here myself last week to do The Jacobite! I was wondering what was at some of those smaller stations I passed through so thank you for showing us!
"I've been here before". 🙄. Oh, ok it's not an ATS gag!
Lovely video but it brings me a little sadness. I often like to get the sleeper from Edinburgh to Fort William as a day trip & really enjoy then going to Mallaig. It's quite a long journey for a day trip but the scenery is beautiful and I prefer Spring & Autumn as it's less busy. In fact that was my last journey prior to lock down & I haven't been able to do it since.😞
So I shall live vicariously though your video🙂👍
Very convenient for them to build a station for the spiders
Cooked a pot noodle with my camping stove on Lochailort Platform a couple of years back haha.
Loch eil outward bound is (or was) a request stop too. I remember getting the train back to leeds after a 3 week expedition. The views were amazing!
Was, it isn't now. My parents live next to the outward bound and I remember it being built in 1985 when i was a kid and having to request it numerous times coming back from uni, It swapped with Locheilside as the request stop as its more frequently used. (though less than Lochailort which I'm surprised is a request stop now)
@@LB1973 it was so much fun flagging the train down at the end of my course!
You are now definitely famous, watching you on Channel Four right now.
The barrow point that you pointed out is actually a road rail vehicle access point. It’s where they put the road rail vehicles onto the tracks when doing maintenance works.
ooh! good knowledge .. thanks Rhanna. i'd assumed because of the old platform it was linked to that. thanks!
It’s probably why there is a large car park too, it must be a strategic point along the line for doing work! You need 3 sleeper lengths to put on a road rail vehicle so any crossing smaller than that is unusable 😊
Ahh I needed this after my last few days. Thanks Geoff... As always!
Hope all is well. Hello from Lochailort
0:11. I wonder if that is the furthest north that one of the SWR branded bags has made it?
"Geoff, and I like trains" XD
hi geoff, i remember lots of stations in sussex in the early 60s which were like this. not crowded, it was a joy to travel then with no do gooder annoucements coming through on the train or station.!
This great video would have been worth watching just for the views of the train arriving and of the viaduct at the end. Beautiful.
Can we have another Scottish request stops video also featuring hailing and boarding a bus - sorry, Coach - at a not-bus-stop? BTW loved this video!
You possibly needed Superman to stop that bus/coach on request! But a brilliant request stop video indeed.
One of the nicest trips I took was Easter 2005 and travelled along that route.
Enjoyed the short film.
Back in my day, the train was a 37 & mk 1's. And the bus was an SMT.
Love this Geoff!
9:10 Aha - we are going to see an old photo of a younger Geoff...
9:45 Aw - no we are not...
9:50 Ooh - Is Geoff going to slip in a photoshopped version of what's in his memory?
10:00 No !! Missed opportunity there, Geoff...
Another great video Geoff!
Stunning scenery
trust me bro back up 20 years ago not a sinch on it now x love you geoff
7:40 Ahhhhh yes, my old friend; the error sound of a Vix validator. That sound haunts me in my dreams. *shudders*
Pretty well anywhere in rural Scotland you can request a bus to stop for you, by signalling like you do at a rail request stop. Just pick a spot where the bus can stop safely, not just after a bend for example. Even Citylink long-distance buses will stop in areas where no formal stop is provided. And we don't use the word 'coach' except for things drawn by horses!
I know this is a year old but i can answer the question of why these stations exist. On the west highland line pretty much all the stations that seem to be nowhere are near highland estates and non residentual staff would use them to get back and forth to work, when the A830 was built it was single track all the way from Fort William to Mallaig and the trains were much faster all the way to the 80's! Locheilside station and Lochailort station are also located at the two junctions to get down to the Ardnamurchan and Moidart peninsulas so they would be the loading points for goods too. Beasdale is near Arisaig house Lochailort near the sadly now derelict Inverailort house and estates towards Acharacle Locheilside served Fassfern estate as well as Duisky etc on the south side of the loch. it used to be further along the loch too iirc. Glenfinnan served Glenfinnan estate, Arisaig Morar and Mallaig were just hamlets really though each have estates nearby too. Even going from Fort William to Glasgow Tulloch (Inverrair), Corrour, Rannoch and Bridge of Orchy are all near large highland estates too.
Ooooh....so close to Corrour you can almost smell the heather.....
You need either a folding bike or a folding scooter so you can whizz between stations.
I'm Geoff. And I like trains.
Famous last words.
Locheilside. Such a useful station.
A very beautiful part off the country. Looks like you have to put your life on the line trying to catch the bus/coach drivers attention to stop.
Pronunciation is better than most - locheylside and lochaylot would be closer.... with more emphasis on the chhhhh (think phlegm) 😉
Just think eel as in the fish. and Aye as in scottish yes.
A fun video, thanks.
Long time ago, when I was a small boy, Lochailort was home. And I can say, yes, there was a signal box at the north end - where tokens were exchanged.... Indeed there was a station building, two platforms and a bridge in those days. Pity it’s all gone.
(And yes, you could do with some practice on the pronunciation. :) )
Love your videos. Just subscribed 👍
Hi Geoff I hear that they have introduced an electronic system at 8 stations in Scotland. Are you going to try it out ? Love all your videos btw.
Nice to know it's still okay to be a tourist in Scotland. I wasn't sure.
Beautiful part of the country :)
I actually used Lochailort on my coastal walk in this area. I was the only passenger getting on though someone did get on at Beasdale too (they were dropped off there by car, from where I don't know).
Your Scottish accent is very good!
I got confused by the bench signs in Scotland recently too. The sign is in fact not for the whole bench but only for that side, so you could have sat on the other end but nobody else would have been allowed in it.
Is that a dome CCTV camera at 6:05? Something else to tick off! With just over 4 passengers a day on average they need to monitor for any ASB :;
Always store backups... everything should be saved on external hard drives which you store in a led lined box!
Lochailort has got a station, a pub hotel and the junction with the A861. It's the closest station to Ardnamurchan. I've gone on and off there on cycling tours.
Yep, it's actually quite busy for the location. I live here, and the late evening train from Fort William is great for a night out.
man, i miss taking these trains.
8:11 Was it really that quiet there? That's amazingly tranquil!
The thing about London is that 30 odd miles from say Marlylebone or Kings X by road to Amersham will be a constant conurbation, people, traffic, traffic lights, lamposts, constant buildings and hubub, but try that in Scotland and you'll soon be in the sticks. Even in the populated bit you'll soon enter that twiglight zone of existence, the no mans land between towns, slap right in the Buckie Triangle in Central Scotland, where strange things occur, Aliens land, Iron Bru is brud and Tunnocks happen.
Another way to think of it is that busy road you were beside was busy because it was the only road (quite probably).
The best way to sort the pronunciations is to ask a local. Failing that, as they tend to be scarce, look at the Gaelic original, which has obviously been anglicised to give you the current form, give up, and take an educated guess.
I've been pass those stations when I stayed over at Fort William for the Jacobite train as a late 21st Birthday present. Beautiful place. Shame Fort William is.....well, how to put this nicely......noticeably designed around bringing in as many tourists as possible.....
the crossing will probably be used by network rail in scotland for mounting on track machines for maintenance
Aww, crap...would have loved to have seen you 19 years earlier to see what you looked like then and the car you had! Oh well...but, the 2nd station was very pretty.
The "not in use" sign was on one end of the bench, so you couldn't have 2 people on the bench at the same time. You could have sat at the other end. Most Scotrail stations have individual seats where the "in use" and "not in use" signs make more sense. For a bench a "one person only" sign would have been more appropriate.
I just love the idea of Geoff accidentally discovering Lochailort is in Oyster Zone 999
What are you Londoners like? Of course there isn't a marked bus stop sign! Everybody knows that rural bus services in Scotland will stop at any safe point.... don't they?? Only, the entire highlands and islands would be a mass of rarely-used bus stop signs if it were otherwise, that would make it a lot less beautiful and away from it all. Besides, who in their right mind gets off a train in the middle of nowhere in order to get a bus to the same destination as the train was going to....?!!? Oh - and it's Loch - ay (as in May) - lort, I think - and definitely Loch -e(e)l - side!
I’m from Edinburgh and I didn’t know this.
Hoping to be near there in the summer
So I have a question. Why can’t you sit on a bench but everyone has to touch the gate to get onto the platform and that’s okay?
Well, looking at a map, it seems Locheilside at least serves a B&B a few houses and the Kinlocheil Post Office is nearby too :)
7:40 I had this happen with my university ID card on my city's card readers (not in the UK).
Damn wish I knew you were up here, I'd have taxied you about :)
I believe falls of cruachan is also a request stop on the Oban like
Oyster Cards are RFID, not NFC
NFC is a form of RFID... the only difference is that NFC devices can be readers and tags.
AbsoluteTV Different Frequency. My nfc reader doesn’t work with my oyster card, and my nfc-based transit card doesn’t work on my RFID reader.
@@samjeffs2700 NFC works in the same frequency range as HF RFID.
The more likely issue is that your RFID reader doesn't support the MIFARE protocol the Oysters use, or you have one of the older cards.
@@AbsoluteTVYT the reason he probably can't access his oyster with his nfc reader is probably because MIFARE DESFire uses a proprietary encryption standard which isn't possible to crack without the key along with the specific application instructions for the program on the card which stores the ITSO stored travel rights
@@abbabbcbbcbb That's what I was heading towards.