I Went to the UK's NORTHERNMOST Train Station
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Local tradition has it that Mary, Queen of Scots, once visited Beauly and had exclaimed: "C'est un beau lieu", whereby came the name Beauly. Muir of Ord was called Tarradale until 1862. Historically access to the village was limited by the natural obstacles of the River Beauly and the River Conon. This changed in 1814 with the construction of the Conon Bridge. In 1835, whisky distilling operations were legally granted in the village and by 1885, the Mill of Ord produced 80,000 imperial gallons per year. Dingwall is derived from the Scandinavian Þingvöllr, which means field or meeting-place of the thing, or local assembly. Altnabreac is from the Scots Gaelic Allt nam Breac, meaning "the stream of the trout". Originally Thurso was known by the Celtic name of tarvodubron meaning "bull water" or "bull river". Norse influence translated its name to Thjorsá, then altered it to Thorsá, based on the deity of Thor and translating as (the place on) Thor's River. Thurso functioned as an important Norse port, and later traded with ports throughout northern Europe until the 19th century.
The northernmost station in the DPRK is Rajin station in Rasŏn Special City. Rasŏn is important as it is an ice-free port on the border with China and Russia. Before 1991, Rason was used by the Soviet Union as an alternative warm-water port in case Vladivostok was unavailable. Rajin is the junction point and terminus of both the Hambuk and P'yŏngra lines of the Korean State Railway, with the latter line serving Pyongyang. The Korean State Railway operates over 5,248 km of railway, of which 4,725 km (2,936 mi) is standard gauge. Of the total, 3,893.5 km of the standard gauge lines are electrified, 4,243 km total electrified! Much of it was electrified during the 1950s and 1960s as the country rebuilt.
There's an ongoing and highly unusual problem at Altnabreac just now. Network Rail need access along the private estate roads to the station - to equip it with the new passenger operated stop request apparatus, but have no right of way over it as it has only existed since the 1980s, and the landowner is refusing them access... If you'd like to understand what they're up against some more, you might want to refer to Dixe Wills' book, "Small Stations," and its chapter about his visit to Altnabreac, when he dared knock on the door of the former station hotel, whose occupants may or may not be one and the same... Hence, the station is "temporarily closed," pending the outcome of their ongoing negotiations - or lack thereof...
What a waste of time, money and lives "property rights" are...
I was going to write a comment about this to Nick but you beat me to it! Crazy situation at what is literally the most isolated station in the country! (Rannoch and Corrour have more buildings around Im sure)
Can they not bring in the equipment by train and use solar to power it?
Whoa, what a scenic line! Growing up in New York, it reminds me of the MTA Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line which goes from NYC to Poughkeepsie and is part of Amtrak's Empire Corridor to Niagara Falls. The line is electrified up to Croton-Harmon and is right next to the Hudson River, so it provides spectacular views of the Hudson Palisades and Hudson Highlands across the river. The Far North Line has a very unique station called Dunrobin Castle which was built as a private, single-platform halt for the Duke of Sutherland to serve Dunrobin Castle. The station closed in 1965 but reopened in 1985 and is now a request stop, although it is only open during the summer months! One of only two stations on the whole National Rail network open for the summer months, the other also in Scotland, Falls of Cruachan on the West Highland Line for hikers climbing Ben Cruachan. The Metro-North Railroad actually has a few stations dedicated for hikers, Manitou and Breakneck Ridge on the Hudson Line, and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line, the latter of which is the only rail station directly located on the whole Appalachian Trail!
In the US, the northernmost station is Fairbanks Depot in Alaska which is also the northernmost rail station in the whole of North America! It is served by the Alaska Railroad's Denali Star and Aurora Winter Train between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The Denali Star runs during the summer months while the Aurora Winter Train runs during the non-summer months. Besides going between Alaska's two biggest cities, many tourists use the Alaska Railroad to reach Denali National Park. The park and contiguous preserve encompass 6,045,153 acres which is larger than the state of New Hampshire. Denali is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (about 6,190 m) above sea level. While Mount Everest has the highest peak, Denali is the tallest mountain in the world from base-to-peak on land, measuring 18,000 ft or about 5,500 m.
There is no way you are literally STILL everywhere writing super detailed comments… are you sure you aren’t AI that was developed early!?
My grandson says that you could do a point to point from Beaulieu on ScotRail to Beaulieu Road on the South Western Mainline
Or he could wait until the new station Beaulieu Park opens in 2026 and do point to point Beaulieu to Beaulieu park
@@Westcountrynordic"This is a Stepford Connect service to Berrily. The next station is Beaulieu Park." 😂
Great video, Nick!
Congrats on reaching the most Northernmost station in the UK!
Nick! You should do some sleeper train videos! Although I hope the Caledonian shower actually works for you unlike some people’s trips 😂
We had the most fantastic views on our trip from Inverness to Wick and Thurso, it's a beautiful journey. The Scotrail trains have seats and windows aligned to frame the views 😊 Lovely line.
Stunning scenery. Looking forward to seeing your next one from up there
I bet Geoff Marshall must be proud of you Nick. The far North of Scotland is so beautiful and massive with its incredible mountains and hills. Shame about the weather but overall such a nice journey. 😊
Just stumbled across your channel after viewing some local (Aussie) stuff on a cold winter's day in Melbourne. I did this trip myself 6 years ago (September 2018), stopped off at Dunrobin Castle on the way and took the later train to both Thurso and Wick (had some lovely fish'n'chips at Wick) before returning to Inverness where I was based for a week. Thanks for the memories. Must get around to checking out more of your videos too when time allows. Cheers from Michael.🙂
I assume that Nick's plans in Scotland don't currently include a Beauly to Beaulieu point to point video
The Far North Line is a good route and a nice ride, great video
Nat and Nick do the Highlands....... a great title for a series. You look so happy on that train, almost asleep at one point. Great video ....
That ship is Deep Energy's Pipe Laying Vessel. Cool!
I'm really into train journeys, this one's so pretty that it's not a solo trip.
Great vlog Nick. Would love to explore more of Scotland one day.
I love it! I may have to come here at some point, what a beautiful line!
Great video Nick, hope you & Natt have a great time up there :) Very scenic :)
Good video, Nick. Scotland has really amazing scenery there.
Scotland has some really beautiful railways especially in the Scottish Highlands.
Fab video as always Nick and Natt!
Probably the first time I have done a bit of line before Nick and Nat have in a video haha! Great work, though this doesn’t illustrate quite how good the scenery is
Great video as usual Nick! It's not just the most northern in Britain, it's the most northern in the whole of the UK!
Great video as always!
Think I might have to make use of my Priv and come here at some point..
Years ago, I used to go to Thurso a lot.
The biggest change I see is that it used to be a corridor on one side and compartments. My entire journey was from Glasgow leaving at 20.45 and get turfed out in Inverness for 40 minutes and then into the "new" train .
Having deliberately not gone to bed the night before I was able to sleep until Thurso, then after a short bus trip sleep again on the boat until I was woken up by the ferry hooter! A journey of about 18 hours or so.
No trains in Orkney, sorry!
The interesting ship you seen is either delivering or collecting oil drilling pipelines from a spool base at the location you seen.. (Technip). The Far North Line and Kyle Lines are all controlled by the signalling centre in Inverness, drivers use a radio for communication throughout the journey, you can often hear the driver talking to the signalling centre if you sit at the front of the train. You will see large masts and many stations throughout to help aid communication for the driver/signaller
amazing video nick my thanks for entertaining me once again
One of my favourite journeys. I stay in the Central area of Scotland and do this trip quite often
Beauly's platform is so short not even a HST power car would fit (the prototype Class 41 power car is 17.17 metres long, Class 43 power cars are 17.79 metres long)
Brilliant video Nick, the scenery on that route looks amazing. :)
Nick-i did the trip from Thurso to Penzance last year. End to end in about 21 hours including a 5am change at Crewe (ugh!). I almost made it from John O'Groats to Lands End in 24 hours. Took me 24 1/2 and could have done it in less than 24 if the bus connections were better in Thurso .
Very impressive!
Another trainspotter went to the end of the Far North Line by train and he didn’t enjoy it. He thought it was pretty “Wick”.
I love the scenery up there, thank you for capturing it! :)
Last time I ventured on to the far north line I did Brighton to Fearn in one go in 2019! That’s some distance and I did the Highland Chieftain end to end.
Hi Nick, Great Video
With Muir of Ord, The tracks are set to face the opposite platform, the trains just push them to go back to single
Also, With Goergemas Junction, A Very Very Long time age, the train use to split there, a part of the train would go to Thurso, Part to Wick, and at Wick, it would split again and would go down the now very much abandoned and I believe ripped up line down to Lybster
brilliant video
That trainshed in Thurso is very very similar to Galway station in Ireland, with the same shape roof and the short platform and run-around line under the roof. It’s being expanded now though.
Also 507 001 is being moved to tanat valley light railway in north west shropshire
You should take a visit to Damems station, that is tiny too and I think it may be less than 15 metres long, though I cannot remember exact length.
heading that way in September to go up to Orkney. Thanks for the right hand side tip
im scotish and really always wanted to do this
Just had a thought:
Have you thought of doing Bagnor (north Wales) to Bangor (northern Ireland)
as both have railway stations.
Okay there is a ferry journey but it is a journey to add to your collection.
Conveniently you can film that one on the way home from doing University (Birmingham) to University (Tyne & Wear Metro) to University (Northern Ireland)...
@@richardhuss LOL
It's called a Neal's token system used for single lines
I'm afraid it's not Nick's 😂lol
Accurately it is RETB Radio Electronic Token Block developed by BR Research and BR's S & T Department. This was developed from an earlier Radio Token Block system that replaced the overhead cable route used with traditional token block equipment. This was to enable the line to be kept open after the pole route (for the old token machines) blew down in a bad winter and the cost of rebuilding was very prohibitive..
Later the cost of maintaining the token equipment, buildings and staff (who were retiring) also became prohibitive and the RETB system, which puts the Token on display in the drivers cab was developed.
It initially operated from a Control Centre in Dingwall which has now been moved to Inverness. The West Highland line, north of Garelochhead, is similarly equipped operating from a Control Centre in Fort William.
Since the original installation back in the 1980's additional equipment has been added to bring TPWS onto the line as well as passenger initiated Request Stop facilities.
Looks like you guys had fun.
I hope to do Scotland properly some day! well, ive never been, so it will be a first time all together!
I did the far north line several years ago. It was a long day, Inverness, Thurso, Wick (An hours break) Thurso and back to Inverness in the same day.
Hope you got to John O'Groats and to the most northerly point on the mainland, Dunnett head. Might as well tick off all the boxes ;-).
Always wanted to do that trip by train. Might get to it yet.
Digital tokens? The Derby to Matlock line still uses a physical token I believe!
When did you do this journey? Me and my partner have just got home from a week in Scotland, we did Glasgow to Thurso Wednesday, returning Thursday. We need to go again to spend more time there.
Your videos are good i live in north wales and havent been that north tho i have been to glasgow edinburgh and dundee
Hi Nick love your videos I do train spotting as well i do GWR and Transport for WALES cross country and more must be cold up in Scotland 😂
The Spirit of Scotland pass is such good value for money, we used one in June 2022 to visit the heritage railway lines.
I think that a train famously went through the buffer at the end of thurso station which is why the buffers are bent, this is the most north a train has ever been in the uk, I think i heard this the last calling all stations video.
I can't find anything about that. I only know about the Montparnasse one from France. Do you have more info on this?
It was in the last All the Stations video from the summer 2017 trip
When you said you'd be on that first train for 4 hours, I nearly spat out my coffee!
You can do London to Newcastle in 3 Hours!!!
Or you can fly it in ~50 minutes
I'm not kidding, I wrote:
"Four hours!
I spat my beer out."
before reading your comment.
class 158 moment 😂😂😂
Will you be doing the eastern, western, and southern most stations too?
you are now nick the north 😂😂
2:48 probably something related to oil
3:36 Cromarty Firth, didn’t he win the Oscar for The King’s Speech?
next video: Thurso to Penzance on every single operator
Including Cross-Country of course
A good few years ago I did Thurso to Penzance in 48 hours. It was Thurso to Aberdeen and the next day up early on the Aberdeen to Penzance Cross Country direct service - the single longest train journey in GB! And it ran perfectly on time!! Though it was only this last October that I explored the West Coast of Scotland, doing the circuit of the East Coast to Aberdeen and across to the West Coast and linking with the bus onto Sky. Taking the Jacobite from Mallaig to Fort William (what a treat that was for £35 and quite unexpected without me booking!) and staying in the Signal Box at Corrour. Not to mention running the Loch Ness Marathon. It was nearly a week of breathtaking scenery and countryside from the train ❤
Favourite YT couple. Who disagrees?
I thought he said she was his sister in another video
@SouthWestern3rdRailway I never said that, I don't even have any siblings ;)
@@NickBadley oh I thought you did 😂
FACTS!!
Well done. Not many mountains here, fairly flat.
When I see Maps because I'm bored, (it's an activity that I do frequently) I always stop and see Thurso. I have the public transport mode, so I wondered what town was the northernmost town that you can go by train, and I thought: "I want to go to Thurso by train and see it".
You've really surprised me with this video!
actually the most northernmost town in britain is lerwick, shetland islands. i would assume thurso is the most northern on the mainland
Town, yes, but there are a few villages further north, the northernmost of which is the tiny settlement of Scarfskerry.
I mean technically britain (presumably being short for Great Britain), describes only the mainland, so while Lerwick is the northernmost town in the United Kingdom, Thurso is actually the northernmost town in Britain.
That doesn't have a train station though?
I heard a story, don't know if it is true, of a trainee policeman sent to the Shetlands on some training course. He was allowed to submit traveling expenses. On the form, he was asked what his nearest railway station was. After some work with a ruler and map, he filled in his answer: Bergen!
Yes, but this is about a STATION and Lerwick obviously doesn't have one....Northernmost TRAIN STATION
We we’re staying in Nairn a few years ago and decided we wanted to go to Ild Pulteney distillery in Wick. We missed breakfast where we were staying and caught the 7AM train to Wick and Thurso, having checked that the distillery visitor centre was open on a Saturday. 4 1/2 later we got off the train at Wick and walked to the distillery to find it was closed that weekend for painting. We just got on the train and did another 4 1/2 hours back. Oh we laughed!
A nice video. Please point your camera out the window and not on yourself. You're a nice enough looking guy, Nick, but I came here to see Scotland, and there wasn't enough of it. That said, this was enjoyable and informative.
I disagree - I think you have a good balance of talking-to-camera and voiceover-filming-scenery shots.
That is exciting. How did you get to Beauly?
Went there the previous night and stayed in a hotel!
Good Video Nick! 0:12 what app do you used for this animation?
Adobe After Effects!
Unbelievably, I didn't know about the Spirit of Scotland pass until this video, although I was aware of National Rail's All Lines Rover. I'll keep this in mind whenever I need to do a lot of travel.
It's a really great rover!
@@NickBadleyhow much was it?
I went to the UK’s SOUTHERNMOST Train Station when
Fancy seeing you here Adam! 😂
I want to see a point to point from this station to Penzance because its the southern most station in the UK
Yeah would be nice... But the journey will be long as hell.
@@hrihoriyryshtey4717 yeah, more content then :)
Laughs in American, shorter than a long distance amtrak route...though Amtrak has a lot more comfortable seats.
That would involve the dreaded Cross Country wouldn't it?
@@hrihoriyryshtey4717 about 24 hours - Zac Alsop did it
Welcome to one of my homes ,Scotland
Another enjoyable video. Thanks.
Can I make one request though.
You said you were excited "for" the journey.
Does the journey experience levels of excitement?
Surely you're excited 'about' the journey?
I have noticed people coming out with this grammatically incorrect bollocks for a while now (I am constantly correcting my daughter (and obviously she recognises I am a cool dad)).
Please don't fall into those miscreant ways.
As for the altnabreac thing, no trains are stopping there at the moment, owing to a dispute with a nearby homeowner and network rail over access to the station
Network Rail should just provide it and to hell with anyone who tries to thwart it! Altnabreac might only get a scant service, but no-one should be allowed to block access to it.
I read into the reasons behind this in that areas local paper, and the people who are blocking access are absolute nutters and become very violent!
@@EdwardMason9000 That can’t really come as a surprise! I think we need to plan a huge visit to Altnabreac station to push up the stats and at the same time sort the muppets out!
I got asked what I was doing at Altnabreac by the homeowner after I returned from a walk to and from the former hotel in June 2023. Of course, I was waiting for a train!
If you don't like random people showing up next to your property, then uhhhh, don't buy a station house?
Nick Badley It wont be your last time on the 507 because their not going until september i think
i recently did that journey myself its a magnificent journey isnt it
the is of the ship Betrice offshore wind farm too work on for helped to put the wind turbines
Did you make it dunnet head and or john o'groats?
Can u do Chesterfield-Derby-Burton On Trent-Tamworth-Birmingham New Street-Nottingham-Chesterfield
And see how long it would take
Thurso to Truro next
That ship looks like it a buoy laying ship
went there in 1986
I wonder what the next video is gonna be. Southern point??
Do north the south as quickly as you can Thurso to Penzance
The thumbnail can't fool me because I can see Thurso sign on it and also i saw the far north driver's eye view trailer and I saw it there
Now go to the UK's southern most station
What view? Most of time was spent looking at your face.🤣😂😁😆
Now do thurso to penzance
2:46 is a cable laying ship. My guess is it's called 'Deep Energy ' as it's been in that area recently.
I would agree highly like to be that ship. Its described as a pipe laying ship and the east coast supports the oil and gas industry a lot.
yayyy
Are we going to see Beauly to Beaulieu
A type of video to do when you have no more good ideas
I like it. Next stop: Southernmost station
W idea, but what if we add in that during the journey he has to do a pointless journey somewhere in the middle of the journey so that he than can resume his journey
@@minecraftertag nice idea, but I think that's a bit too complicated & time consuming + doesn't focus on the actual idea
@@MerseyTransport 👍
Now you've done the most most northerly you've got some complete the set the most the most southern one and east and west ones
i’ve done Penzance, Penzance, Lowestoft and Thurso
Thurso to Thurnscoe?
The ship at 2:46 looks to be some sort of offshore supply vessel, they're commonly used in the area to transport goods, crew, or equipment around the offshore oil and gas installations in the North Sea, however it looks like that one is perhaps carrying and laying a load of cables or pipes.
Please say you went to Wick to finish the Railway?
Next video ;)
I went to Thurso station in 1971 when I had a week's rover ticket on Scottish railways, which cost £7. How much is it these days? Philip Heselton
According to the National Rail website, a single ticket from Beauly to Thurso is £26
We used an 8 in 15 Spirit of Scotland Rover, which cost us £124.75 with a railcard, or £189.00 without
@@NickBadley When I went in 1971, I don't think they had young person's railcards. I had to buy a return from Hull to Berwick-upon-Tweed, but then used my £7 for a week card. I went Edinburgh - Aberdeen - Forres - Inverness - Thurso - Dingwall - Kyle of Lochalsh - ferry to Skye - Broadford - ferry back to Mallaig - Fort William - Glasgow - Inverness - Edinburgh - Berwick. Good value for £7 in 1971!
@@user-kt4gu6qu7d if only it were still that good of value nowadays!
I don't think there are any mountains north of Dingwall.
???? Have you driven up there??
@@barrieshepherd7694 No, but I've taken the train. My recollection was a flat, boggy expanse.
On the right-hand running, a bunch (I don't think all, but certainly most) of the loops on the West Highland Line have been set up for right-hand running since the introduction of RETB and removal of local signal boxes in the 80s - with the simplification of the line it was easier to allow facing point access to the sidings (which are mostly on the right hand side in the direction of travel) from the right hand loop to ease shunting, rather than have to manually pump the points into the right positions and back again. Not that that makes much difference now with how little the vast majority of the sidings are used, but that was the intention. I think a couple on the Far North Line were reconfigured for the same reason.