Great Coastal Railway Journeys heads inland to Cairngorms
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TV presenter Michael Portillo will be travelling to the Cairngorms by train.
Great Coastal Railway Journeys will be calling into the strath on Monday evening for the half-hour episode.
Portillo will be covering the line from Inverness to Aviemore.
He crosses the Culloden Viaduct aboard the Caledonian Sleeper to arrive bright and early into Inverness, from where he heads north on a magnificent scenic adventure to the Orkney archipelago.
The ex-MP then explores the battlefield at Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army fought British government troops in 1746.
Portillo learns to execute the infamous Highland Charge and discovers how the Jacobites’ catastrophic defeat devastated the Highlands for many years that followed.
He then takes the Highland main line and climbs the Slochd summit to visit Carrbridge, home of the World Porridge Making Championships.
At Broomhill, the presenter's dreams come true when he is invited to join the crew of the Strathspey Steam Railway on the footplate of their wonderful locomotive as they puff and pant their way past the River Spey and the Cairngorm mountains along the original main line.
He then heads to Loch Morlich where he learns about writer, poet and naturalist Nan Shepherd, who captured the essence of the Cairngorms in her prose.
The episode - the sixth in the series – airs on BBC2 on Monday at 6.30pm.
