whether to go to the uk's most remote abandoned station
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so um welcome to another video welcome to the uk's most remote abandoned station
so not for the first time this week we've stopped
at the same little beauty spot lock uh lubnag just very picturesque
what did you go for oh you did go for background you look cold i feel a little
bit on the nippy side right now it's a lot better it's a lot choppier the other day oh
yeah it was just completely serene and smooth you'll see the sun coming out all across the
tops as well it's lovely yeah right back and roll then we're on up to uh alakaba dubbo
everybody we finally made it out it's like half past nine this morning um lots of good this
evening it's not our past night this evening it's hard this night this morning first plan scuppered
there's like a little monument a little castle um on the route and it says on the os maps p p for
parking which is a known thing in this country you can park so we came up this trackway in our car
and straightaway there was a gate post saying no on authorized vehicles this
gate will be locked at any time so we thought we better not pass it that's taken a kilometer
off of our car journey and added a kilometer to our walk-in journey which is a bit of a pain
so that was the uh
that was the car park that we were gonna park in
nice little castle ruins and it's a bit disappointing because we could
there was clearly it's there for parking there for looking at the old castle it's obviously
someone's farm and someone's house as well i'm just going to stop my waffle and mute myself there
for a little bit mainly because of the impending wind so this is how the day started we set off
with every intention of visiting the uk's most remote abandoned railway station 10 kilometers
from the nearest road it's worth mentioning at this point that this is the highlands of
scotland and despite the best forecast in two weeks today we were unprepared and some
they say if you don't like the weather up here just wait for about 10 minutes
well we took the forecast at face value and certainly weren't prepared for what lay ahead
so this is an os map of the area we parked up just north of the bridge of orky adjacent to the loch
tiller the journey towards gorham would take us northeast up into the grampians passing the castle
just there at the car park and crossing the fords within a couple of kilometers
we would cross to the north side of the valley here and work our way up the water of tulla
we had noted what appeared to be a trackway and when you flick to google maps
it clearly shows a walkable route the next step would see us reach gallon bovie at this point
we would need then to head southeast going under the main line before heading directly
east for the final kilometer of the journey and of course to today's goal
at least that was the plan the first issue was a ball the size of our house
you probably can't really see it that well on the gopro because it has a huge or a very wide lens
but believe me walking through this field was as close to terrifying as it gets well certainly if
you are someone like me who is scared of any animal bigger than a dog ah biggest bull i've
ever seen in my life i reckon i mean it might be exaggerating right but that was big yeah he
was a happy fella hefty fella in the field we're now in the distance you're gonna see it but um
my god that was a big ball we walked with an exceptional purpose for about five minutes there
this is the perfect spot for lunch everybody although it's only pogba's 10.
right so we're probably halfway so we parked here we're currently here we've got on bobby is about
here so halfway to the body rebecca yay the os map is always a tad deceiving and by that i mean
everything always seems to be tangible everything always seems to be close we had every intention
of getting the drone out here and capturing one of the handful of trains that were passing
that day the wind and the distance put pay to this but we did get it on camera can you spot
it
about now was when the weather took a dramatic turn if it wasn't wet enough the wind started
to make filming close to impossible to top that we soon realized how unprepared we actually were
yes we had food and water but that was about it and we were fairly warm too
but i can't hear what i need to get dry but i also need to keep a bit cool because i'm boiling
let's talk about the brief history of this uh whole station we're pretty sure although the
wikipedia article was pretty rubbish where it's worded as ever um it started its life as gortan
a-n then it was changed to gorton however that didn't really matter to it because
it was a private um halt private station so they they changed the name to not mistake
it from manchester with the mind eye of it being in timetables but it was never in a timetable no
and apparently early on in its history if a um station master or somebody issued a ticket or
they let somebody off there that was a sackable offense didn't we yeah any member of the public
we were now over six and a half kilometers into a nine kilometer trip with the same journey back
again if we make it to the abandoned station my legs were soaked through as for reasons
we should debate another day we naively assumed that wet weather gear wouldn't really be needed
in the highlands of scotland it was time to make the call do we carry on and reach the abandoned
station do we carry on and perhaps reach the body but with the ongoing pandemic we're aware
that you weren't really allowed in them this only made a decision to turn back a bit easier
with no chance of an emergency break at the body or even an overnight stay
we thought we would be putting ourselves and potentially others at risk if we carried on
we've been wanting to do this now for a number of years and perhaps 2021 will be the year that
we actually finally get this done we get gorton holt ticked off thanks for watching and as always
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