Getting Here

A little insight into the routes you can take getting to visit Fort William and Lochaber. Concentrating mainly on some of the public transport options, also covering road and even air, if you’re really posh.

Traincation to Fort William on the Caledonian Sleeper

Published on May 10, 2011 by abouthighlands in Getting Here | Comments Off

Caledonian Sleeper

I came across an interesting finding recently: “Global Cool, a green lifestyle organisation, reports that over half of all holidaymakers are considering swapping air travel for train travel, with holidaymakers tired of the time wasted waiting and queuing in airports ahead of departure. ATOC, the Association of Train Operating Companies in the UK published a report that saw that in 2010, 27% of people travelling from London to Edinburgh opted to go by train compared with 17% in 2006. “ Lochaber, as with the West Highlands as a whole, is in a bit of a transport black spot mainly due to lack of investment in road infrastructure, but one means of getting here often overlooked as an alternative to driving … Read more