Coastal Railways with Julie Walters

The West Highlands (1x1)

Air date: Nov 26, 2017

ulie rides the West Highland Railway in Scotland on board the famous Jacobite steam train, memorable for its starring role in the Harry Potter films, before getting some practical training in “extreme violence” and blowing up railway lines at Arisaig House – home to the Special Operations Executive that trained agents in the WW2. Arriving at Mallaig, once the biggest herring port in Europe, Julie gets a lesson in, among other delicacies, herring gutting and smoking before catching the ferry to the Isle of Skye where she meets one of the last ‘seanchai’ or traditional Scottish storytellers. Julie is entranced by his powers. At Kyle of Lochalsh she catches the Inverness bound train stopping at Duirinish, one of the remotest communities in the Western Highlands, where she works with the Highland cattle and their wrangler, the redoubtable Morag, who takes her into the bosom of the hamlet.