For our summer adventure this year, my husband and I had a few requirements: We got all this, and more, hiking The West ...

Tour manager Angie Eccles explains why Great Rail Journeys’ escorted tours are the best way to unearth Scotland’s wild beauty and history I’m going into my 15th season leading tours to Scotland and ...

Sometimes all that is needed to switch-off from the daily grind is a journey by train to a new destination: getting settled in a seat with a good book, with views to admire out of the window, and ...

If train travel to you means paying exorbitant prices for the privilege of being jam-packed alongside commuters, then the idea of a rail holiday might sound like a nightmare. But Scotland might be the ...

A major £4.5m upgrade to the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line has began, bringing three weeks of intensive engineering work to ...

WHILE not everyone might have crossed over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, most of us know it from the famous Harry Potter train scene. It forms part of the West Highland Railway Line, which has been called ...

There's something magical about a sleeper train. Snuggling down and drifting off to the clickety-clack rhythm of the wheels on the track and waking in a far off destination so different from the one ...

The following is an extract from Epic Train Trips of the World by Lonely Planet, $55 RRP. Contact Whitcoulls or see shop.lonelyplanet.com. Britain’s most celebrated train journey straddles two ...

I do love a train journey. Even years of commuting from Falkirk High to the Herald offices in Glasgow never put me off (despite ScotRail’s occasional best efforts). So Radio 3’s day of live ...

The MSP said: “It was heartening to hear from both ScotRail and Network Rail about the work being undertaken in what is a ...