Hi, I found this thread from a Google search. I'm not a train enthusiast so apologies for invading! But I was trying to find out something, kind of. I knew there was some, ahem, "fun and games" going on in relation to the station at Altnabreac. This is annoying me because I would like to use it for access to the walking opportunities out there.
Anyway, today I walked past the station and also took a train through the station so can say what I saw. On my walk I came to the level crossing. Gates at both sides shut, chained and padlocked at both ends. Green signs, "Private Land, No Public Right of Way" signs attached to the gates with zip ties. No I'm afraid I was very bad, I had been dropped off at the start of my walk 7 miles back and needed to get to Forsinard, 14 miles forward, in order to catch a train back to civilization. Any other route to civilization was going to add many miles to my journey on foot or a long wait in the cold somewhere which was not possible, or at least very much not preferable. So I climbed gates and nipped across the line. I obviously was careful about trains!! The signs bothered me, they didn't look official, no "Scotrail" insignia on them (I may have resigned myself to a change on plan if they HAD had that - I'm not a natural rebel AT ALL!)...
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As I headed away from the line a train happened to go through, I noticed it slowed right down and was having a panic that I'd been seen being Bad. Having skimmed this thread and caught the train back I suspect that they just go through there slowly as a matter of course at the moment.
On the train on the way back I looked out for Altnabreac, just the existence of this station is fascinating to me (whhhyyy?) and I wanted a scooby at it. As we passed through, slowly, I saw that there were signs at either end of THE PLATFORM of a similar stamp to the green ones on the gates, but red, saying "Private Land Keep Out". I was a bit
What's going on? ARE those official signs or is someone taking the proverbial? Was I a Bad Person for ignoring them? Why buy a house on a train station platform if you are going to get annoyed by people using the station? Any idea what the situation with the level crossing is? Because I really enjoyed my adventure today and really that track has to be accessible to walkers and cyclists at the very least... it's part of The Great North Trail, people doing JOGLE and LEJOG will want to use it and be rights should be absolutely free to do so. When it comes to access rights I can understand farmers getting pissed off with people tramping over their fields but blocking access in this situation, a great big forestry track in the middle of nowhere that should bother nobody at all especially as not many people will be using it anyway even at the busiest times, is criminal in my view.
I'm glad I didn't encounter these people though and as a woman, walking alone, it is an extremely intimidating prospect that I might. Seems like I timed it nicely with them being in court today thou
Hi, I found this thread from a Google search. I'm not a train enthusiast so apologies for invading! But I was trying to find out something, kind of. I knew there was some, ahem, "fun and games" going on in relation to the station at Altnabreac. This is annoying me because I would like to use it for access to the walking opportunities out there.
Anyway, today I walked past the station and also took a train through the station so can say what I saw. On my walk I came to the level crossing. Gates at both sides shut, chained and padlocked at both ends. Green signs, "Private Land, No Public Right of Way" signs attached to the gates with zip ties. No I'm afraid I was very bad, I had been dropped off at the start of my walk 7 miles back and needed to get to Forsinard, 14 miles forward, in order to catch a train back to civilization. Any other route to civilization was going to add many miles to my journey on foot or a long wait in the cold somewhere which was not possible, or at least very much not preferable. So I climbed gates and nipped across the line. I obviously was careful about trains!! The signs bothered me, they didn't look official, no "Scotrail" insignia on them (I may have resigned myself to a change on plan if they HAD had that - I'm not a natural rebel AT ALL!)...
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As I headed away from the line a train happened to go through, I noticed it slowed right down and was having a panic that I'd been seen being Bad. Having skimmed this thread and caught the train back I suspect that they just go through there slowly as a matter of course at the moment.
On the train on the way back I looked out for Altnabreac, just the existence of this station is fascinating to me (whhhyyy?) and I wanted a scooby at it. As we passed through, slowly, I saw that there were signs at either end of THE PLATFORM of a similar stamp to the green ones on the gates, but red, saying "Private Land Keep Out". I was a bit
What's going on? ARE those official signs or is someone taking the proverbial? Was I a Bad Person for ignoring them? Why buy a house on a train station platform if you are going to get annoyed by people using the station? Any idea what the situation with the level crossing is? Because I really enjoyed my adventure today and really that track has to be accessible to walkers and cyclists at the very least... it's part of The Great North Trail, people doing JOGLE and LEJOG will want to use it and be rights should be absolutely free to do so. When it comes to access rights I can understand farmers getting pissed off with people tramping over their fields but blocking access in this situation, a great big forestry track in the middle of nowhere that should bother nobody at all especially as not many people will be using it anyway even at the busiest times, is criminal in my view.
I'm glad I didn't encounter these people though and as a woman, walking alone, it is an extremely intimidating prospect that I might. Seems like I timed it nicely with them being in court today though! Right right
thank you. the Scottish rights of ways society (1845) (of which I’m a life member) has published a leaflet on the right to roam: