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A steam train with white smoke, a long viaduct, and a hilly landscape. 1
A car parked on a gravel path by a lake with mountains in the background. 2
A river flowing through a forest with a bridge in the background. 3
A railway bridge in a hilly landscape with autumn foliage. 4
A beach with clear skies, distant mountains, and a calm sea. 5
By Silent Glen Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$2,796 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 10h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

  • The train everyone photographs, from the places the photographs are taken. A private day from Inverness to Glenfinnan, Arisaig and Mallaig, built around the Jacobite timetable so you are on the hillside before the good ground goes. One sighting at the viaduct is promised and two or three are likely, because the train stops and we do not. This is a photography day rather than a train ride - no ticket needed, and no queue for one. Loch Shiel from the monument, the silver sands at Camusdarach, and the harbour at Mallaig where the road west runs out. One group per day, in a fully electric car.

Activity location

  • Glenfinnan Viaduct
    • Glenfinnan Lodge A830 Rd,
    • PH37 4LT, Glenfinnan, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Glenfinnan Viaduct
    • Glenfinnan Lodge A830 Rd,
    • PH37 4LT, Glenfinnan, United Kingdom

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Jacobite Steam Train Tour Glenfinnan to Mallaig

  • Activity duration is 10 hours10h
    10h
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 8:00 AM
Price details
AU$1,397.98 x 2 TravellersAU$2,795.96
Total
Price is AU$2,795.97
Until Thu, 5 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    The car is yours for the whole day. One group per day, nobody else aboard.
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Parking Fees
  • Exclusions
    Meals
  • Exclusions
    Suitable Clothing
  • Exclusions
    Seats on the Jacobite steam train - this is a photography day, not a ride on the train.
  • Exclusions
    National Trust visitor centre at Glenfinnan, if you want to go inside. Optional.

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Specialised infant seats are available
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Glenfinnan Viaduct

  • 1h 30m
On the hillside a long time before it comes, because the spot fills and the shot is only worth having from there. Twenty-one arches on a curve, and a steam train crossing them. We walk up early and wait, because the good ground goes to whoever got there first and there is no talking your way onto it afterwards. The train is timetabled, so we know when it is due; what we cannot promise is that it is running to time, and on a bad day it is twenty minutes late and nobody minds.

Glenfinnan Monument

  • 45m
Everyone comes for the viaduct and leaves without walking the two hundred yards to the monument, which stands at the head of Loch Shiel where the standard was raised in 1745. The loch runs seventeen miles south-west from it between the hills. It is the better view and it is almost always emptier.

Jacobite Steam Train

  • 45m
The train stops at Glenfinnan and we do not, which is the whole trick: while it is sitting at the platform we are on the road west, and there is time to be standing at Loch nan Uamh before it comes past. Whether we make it depends on how fast you are back to the car and whether the train is on time. We will tell you at Glenfinnan which it is going to be rather than promising it in advance.

Arisaig

  • 45m
White shell sand, and Eigg and Rum sitting on the horizon.

Camusdarach Beach

  • 1h
A path over the dunes and no sign telling you what it is. The silver sands, and the reason this coast is worth an afternoon rather than a photograph. Shell sand, machair behind it, and the Small Isles across the water. There is no car park worth the name and no sign, which is why it is usually empty at four in the afternoon in August.

Mallaig

  • 1h 30m
Where the road ends. Langoustines on the harbour if the boats have been out. A working fishing port that happens to be where the road west finally stops. The train terminates here too, so if the timing has gone well you can watch it come in. Lunch is on the harbour, and the langoustines depend entirely on whether the boats went out that morning.

Loch Eilt (Pass by)

On the way home, and the light is usually better on it by then.

Location

Activity location

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    Glenfinnan Viaduct
    • Glenfinnan Lodge A830 Rd,
    • PH37 4LT, Glenfinnan, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Glenfinnan Viaduct
    • Glenfinnan Lodge A830 Rd,
    • PH37 4LT, Glenfinnan, United Kingdom

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