North of the bordr from the Tweed to Thurso
Ray Schofield
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Unknown
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 30th December 2025
- Tagged:
- Trains | Steam Engines | Scotland
This talk can be spit into two. The full railway version or just a scenic Scottish rail journey. A journey on some of the most scenic rails north of the Border commencing with the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick on Tweed via Edinburgh, the Forth Bridge, Glasgow, the West Highland Line to Mallaig, via Skye to Kyle of Localsh, Inverness and to finish in sight of Hoy at Thurso. All with steam and taken on my c.25 visits over the border from 1963 to now. The first of a trilogy of Scottish talks
Views: 1103 | Enquiries: 1About Ray Schofield
Retired Chartered Engineer who has undertaken tour management for UK worldwide rail travel company. Widely travelled, much of which is independent, around the 5 continents of the world plus Aus and NZ. Visited parts that most others haven’t e.g., North Korea, Pakistan, Eritrea, Paraguay, Syria .......
Talks are generally associated with trains (mostly nostalgic steam) the railways themselves and associated historical aspects. Most talks were planned for railway interest groups but can be tailored to audience, whether knowledgeable on rail subjects or not and using both Ray's own photo material and other sourced images.
Presentations will be in digital format and in Power Point format.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Ray Schofield
- Action & Articulation - the story of articulated steam locomotives
- The Great Northern Railway, King's Cross Station & Sir Nigel Gresley
- The Great Central Railway - Rapid Travel in Luxury
- From Carlisle to Kittybrewster (that's in Aberdeen)
- North of the Border: From Canal to Craigellachie
- GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY – ‘’rarely other than idiosyncratic’’
- Calgary to Kamloops and more by rail
- From Welllington to Wakatipu and north to Aukland too
- Ray's book - Locomotive Sheds of the Great Central Railway and the CLC
- The NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY from the Stockton & Darlington Rly to the East Coast Main Line
- 1847 and the first railway route to Scotland
- Adventures with the Permanent Way and Pagodas in mysterious Burma
- Darjeeling Delights and more – Narrow gauge steam operated railways in the Indian Sub-Continent
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