North of the Border: From Canal to Craigellachie
Ray Schofield
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Unknown
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 30th December 2025
This is Ray's third 'Scottish Journey' using pictures. This time we travel north from Carlisle via the wild and windswept Waverley route to Edinburgh, then into and out of the Kingdom of Fife via the world's first train ferrys each superseded by a notable and a notorious bridge over the Forth and the Tay respectively. The journey takes us onto the Highland Line to finish via the Strathspey and Whisky lines at Craigellachie, a former remote junction in Morayshire. All with steam traction, and many taken on Ray's c.25 visits over the border from 1963 to now. The last of Ray's trilogy of Scottish talks.
Views: 1082 | Enquiries: 0About 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
- North of the bordr from the Tweed to Thurso
- 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)
- 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
Send a message to the speaker
If you are interested in this talk and wish to contact the speaker, please complete the following form: