This is today's 10.12 service from Wick to Inverness standing at Golspie station and running ten minutes late. It's sadly underused at the moment. Other than the guard, seen standing next to the train, only one other person alighted and no-one boarded. At the moment there are three services a day, this one, the 08.25 and the 14.47, and three the other way.
The journey to Inverness takes just over two hours, and its one of those journeys where reading a book, or doing anything else other than looking out of the window at the passing view, seems little short of criminal. It's a friendly little train: when we've travelled, we've fallen into conversation with a fellow-passenger.
That there is a railway station, and this excellent service, was one of the reasons we came to Golspie. From Inverness, the Caledonian Sleeper leaves six evenings a week for London Euston, and there are connections to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Kyle of Lochalsh for Skye. While we've done the journey to Inverness, we haven't travelled the other way, to Thurso and Wick, which also takes just over two hours. We very much look forward to using this little train much more next year.
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