Grand Tours of Scotland: In Search of the Real Scotland

Series in which Paul Murton follows in the footsteps of the first tourists to Scotland. Here, he boards the Jacobite steam train and star of the Harry Potter movies to make one of the world's most famous railway journeys. For centuries, outsiders had seldom visited the beautiful landscape of the west coast, but the power of steam changed everything. Within a century, a network of railways spread across the entire country, connecting the industrial cities of the south to the mountains and glens of the north. With the trains came the tourists - all clamouring for a piece of the real Scotland. Paul's route starts at the foot of Ben Nevis in Fort William and continues along the beautiful railway line to Mallaig and onwards to the fabled Isle of Skye.