Mutant Caterpillars & The Old Moray Coast Railway | Speyside Way Part 3: Craigellachie to Buckie
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2019
- It's August 2018, and Frances has roped me in to walk The Speyside Way, a 105km-long National Trail in northeast Scotland that traces the route of two old abandoned railway lines. Will we make it to the end or will we be eaten by a giant mutant caterpillar? PART THREE OF A MILDY INTERESTING SERIES
That caterpillar is deilephila elpenor, they turn into equally huge, bright pink and yellow moths.
Ah thanks, excellent caterpillar knowledge!
That's a beautiful moth! Not something I'd ever see in my part of the world.
@DATING HARLEY QUINN You do quite a good job at promoting this caterpillar
Dope! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I never knew you got them in Scotland
Did you know that the recycling center you've walked past has actually been an RAF airfield? The runways -or what's left of them- can still be seen on satellite maps. During WW2, the airfield was used, among other things, for the RAF Coastal Command. They've operated Bristol Beaufighter airplanes, hence the name 'Beaufighter Road' surrounding the property.
Anyways, excellent series of videos. Discovered your channel just recently, but i've been watching several videos a day now. Cheers from Landgraaf the Netherlands, where we have a ski slope on a mine stone mountain -- like the beckton alp(s)
Great three-parter. The scenic and historical elements are great, but the narration is what makes this piece stand high above other travel vlogs.
The beach is made of concrete and the harbor looks like a funeral. 😆
Good video. You’d never know the six month split in some of the video existed, as that is indeed a typical day here! 😉
Bit of local knowledge for you if you are ever back - Fochabers station does still exist. The bus stop you filmed at, there is a long building at the top of the embankment about 2-3 houses north of where you were standing. That is the station building. Now a private residence. It is built in the style of the Highland railway. It closed to passengers in the 1930’s but goods service ended in 1966. The track was on the other side of the building.
The recycling centre is built on part of the site of RAF Dallachy, which was a short lived, but important air base during the Second World War for shipping strikes using Beaufighters and Mosquitos.
Buckie is a toilet.
Cheers,
Scotty
Ah cheers Scotty! Thanks for the extra info, that's some great local knowledge, although I'm now kind of annoyed with myself for missing the station at Fochabers, and apparently there's a ruined control tower at RAF Dallachy which is still standing and might have been worth a look. I'll have to check them out next time... :)
The Tim Traveller there is indeed a ruined control tower, but last time I was there, access into the tower was not possible.
If you look on Google Maps using the satellite view, you can see how much of the runways and taxiways still exist.
Plus, you can see the station building at Fochabers!
The Spey railway viaduct was so long as the Spey regularly changes course. The line there started at Elgin East railway station (still there and used as offices. The booking hall is still there and in original condition) and looped up the coast before rejoining the main line to the east of Keith.
The Speyside Railway junction at Craigellachie went to Dufftown, then onto Keith and the Inverness - Aberdeen mainline, and the other junction leg went to Elgin East through Rothes, passing quite a few distilleries. If you research Craigellachie Station, the pictures will show you a substantial railway junction; hard to believe when you visit the wooded park that is there now. Most of the Elgin - Craigellachie platform are covered over by the A95 re-alignment.
The Speyside Line wasn’t just used for whisky, but also taking in the vast amounts of barley and the casks for the whisky. Also, up until the 1960’s the vast majority of distilleries used coal to fire the stills, which would arrive by train. The last coal fired distillery in Scotland was converted to steam in 2005.
If passing through Aberlour again, go to the Mash Tun, which is the former station hotel. Local legend is that it will return to its name of the Station Hotel if a train returns to Aberlour. The Highlander Hotel in Craigellachie as well is worth a visit. Both hotels have an amazing whisky collection.
There is also a long distance railway walk called the Dava Way, crossing Dava Moor between Grantown-on-Spey and Forres. It about 30’miles and is not as easily travelled as the Speyside way. Look on the internet to see some of the snow drifts they used to get. Trains had to carry blankets in winter as getting stuck wasn’t unusual.
Sorry for boring you, but hopefully the extra knowledge will make your return more enjoyable when you see what was there and enjoy some of the area’s liquid produce! 😉
Not boring at all, this is great Scotty! I've highlighted your original comment so viewers will hopefully see this and read it. Funnily enough I did actually visit a few of the locations you mentioned, including the stations at Keith and Elgin East, and although they didn't quite fit into the series (which was technically supposed to be about walking the Speyside Way, before I got distracted by all the old railway stuff) there might just be a little bonus video coming up in the next few weeks :)
@@TheTimTraveller "this is great Scotty"
Really? I mean, really?
Does Frances have her own channel? She surely must be documenting her walks? All 19 walks would generate interest surely?
I was wondering where part three went, and now I know.
And I totally expected you to start rapping to gangsta's paradise there :D I'm kind of sad you didn't :x
Ha, if you are still disappointed about this you should try watching my video about the Semmering Railway, where I do spend a few seconds rapping before realising it's a huge mistake
@@TheTimTraveller That wasn’t a mistake at all! It just made me chuckle after a long day and lifted my mood, so I wouldn’t call that a mistake! It was just a moment of levity and humour, nothing wrong with that!
Silly bad rapping all in the name of a funny pun or joke is never a mistake 😂… Ok maybe occasionally a mistake… But still worth the risk for when it works….
Keep up the amazing work! Glad you are getting closer to the views you deserve (in my unimportant opinion)! But still, great job 👍 hope you are enjoying making these videos just as much as I have enjoyed watching them!
Come for the video, stay for the humor. And the video.
And Frances :)
As Brian Blessed might say “Portgordon’s alive”
No, he would say
"PORTGORDONS ALIVE"
I'm one of those two people that doesn't know what you're going on about. But I really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work!
Ha, thank you!
pity you stopped, keep going through Buckie & the costal path gets lovelier
This three-parter just popped up on my RUclips recommendations; I’m glad it did. Excellent stuff as ever 👍
Love the Gangsters Paradise music!! RIP Coolio!
Really enjoyed all three parts and especially the fact that things don't always go as planned. The reconstruction was perfect.
loved this series! Amazing.
Wow, very beautiful views and very nice way . Thanks for your video and your reconstruction ;)
We need to see more of Frances..
But in a platonic manner.
iMouse err. Yes. Platonic.
She's a cutie :)
Really enjoyed all three parts of this series. :)
I’ll be walking the Speyside Way in August, inspired by your series. Really looking forward!
Your channel is about to blow up. Love all the videos. Hi from Florida USA
Great series of videos!
That bridge is the Tardis of the North! Also at the finishing line I believe that you didn't film just because you two were competing, and running to get there first is not an ideal filming state :P
Finally the great Trilogy of the Speyside is finished, I believe it tops LOTR and every other trilogy. Cheers!
Haha thanks Steroumel, there is actually a dark secret about the finishing line... we couldn't find it! When we arrived in Buckie in the summer, we googled it and looked on the map but no luck. So in the end we just celebrated in the pub. But then when I went back on my own in the winter I googled it again and this time I found it straight away. So I'm the only one who actually technically finished the trail. Frances didn't speak to me for 3 days.
@@TheTimTraveller Oh that's... unfortunate! Haha I think Frances shouldn't be *that* angry, it was just a finish line (no it wasn't, you won 100%) :P
@@TheTimTraveller was she speaking to you at the time?
I mean, that three day span could have been part of a much longer "don't speak to Tim" span which was already in progress.
Awesome. I love disused stations too
As I walk in the valley where I harvest my grain,
I took a look at my wife, and realise shes very plain,
@@kanedaku but that's just perfect for an Amish like me,
Craigellachie - gave its name to the place in Canada where the 2 parts of the Canadian Pacific Railway joined to form the first transcontinental railway. Big tourist attraction..
Love your videos Tim keep up the good work my friend
Bravo Zulu on the trifecta 😎
Fascinating 🧐 the dramatic seasonal change they have there 🥸 😅😂🤣 ….. completely evident in this the third of a wild weather summer shoot.
I crack myself up 😎
I'm glad your videos have improved since this one.
Came to this channel from a facebook-group called "Eifel-Tourismus", where they've linked the Vennbahn-story. From the first moment, I was banned to your reports and - indeed - to your speech! Thank you for that, it gives me a real good time! Hope, you will going to make a lot more! :-)
PS: Perhaps, you want to see the a part of the Eifel again, with its volcanic lakes called "Maar" and a lot of spectacular landscapes. If, than let me know, we (my girl, me and the dog Balou) would really like to support you! :-)
Ok, laughed out loud. Thanks! :)
Class upload buddy great tune also thanks for sharing
Cheers man!
Thanks for this Tim! Mrs Wizard and I honeymooned at Upper Knockando some years ago, and we might venture back to try out the long path as an anniversary.
(I've yet to break this news to her...)
Every time you post a video, it makes me want to go to Europe more and more
Van Buren ? Sound Dutch to me ! Where are you from ?
After watching this video series I finally understand what my Grandpa meant when he said Scotland was the most beautiful place he had ever seen on Earth. He was there during WWII and always wanted to go back with my Grandma, but sadly never made it. (My family is from Michigan, so its not exactly an easy trip to make.)
It's a very easy trip to make, not that cheap though.
Scotland is very beautiful!!
I caught one of these caterpillars (like it was difficult) during the summer. First time I'd ever seen one. Apparently, they are common even in Northern Ireland where I live. No one else I know had ever seen one either. I was quite impressed by it, strange to the touch. The little guy inflated his head when he felt threatened and the spots would enlarge and look very much like large eyes as a result.
Loved it
Interesting.
Last year I spent the night in Boat of Garten. Had i known of this abandoned railway line, I would have take a look. Alas I can't walk that good anymore, so it would have been just a look, but I didn't know. Nice river, the Spey, but apart from the breweries and the Salmon, not much to do.
I was mainly in Scotland for the castles.
Maybe you could do a series about those. I had only seen about 6 of the better known.
Thanks for your wonderful videos.
BTW, I'm from the Netherlands.
Wowowowow that is a *giant* caterpillar!
Best siting of a man hole cover ever - recommended!
The girder bridge is amazing! I'd love to walk the Speyside Way myself one day! So far the only Spey I've had in my live is the Strathspey Railway!
The end of the route seemed less impressive than the beginning. Would you recommend doing the route in reverse?
(Two years later....) It'd be up hill. I'm too darn old for that. But I'm a sucker for Walker's Shortbreads.
That trail is pretty cool. You should check out some of the rail trails we have down here in Australia. If you ever do some, I offer myself as a free guide for them. Which means I'd just like to hike the ones I've done again without doing it alone 😅
OK, I'll stop sounding like a creepy person now 🤣
Really enjoyed this series, I'm kinda curious how many people would've commented on the winter footage if it wasn't brought up and just assumed that was the normal weather fluctuation.
Bit disappointed though that the giant caterpillar becomes a nice pretty moth and not some end of the world monster.
The weather in this video is like the fall weather here in Missouri, USA. Sunny and warm one minute; cold and dreary the next.
How can you overlook Fochabers and fixate on Dipple?
My Uncle lived near Craigellachie. He was the game on the Macallan distillery estate
2:12 love the Jay Foreman reference!
"To be fair, if you've ever experienced scottish weather, it's just goona look like a typical day" LMAO That's how I remember it indeed ! lol
I love your videos - informative and entertaining - don't change! One question for you on this little trek - where did you stay along the way?
Exactly my thought and question. Did you tent, b&b or return home?
You should go the the Ardennes, it's littered with abandoned railways and stations!
New to the channel so apologies if you’ve done this but would love similar trail videos. If you’re ever in the US again, there are some good trails here.
we had a house up in port gordon, yeh it’s bleak
LMAO "... well, this is very much at the opposite end of the perfume spectrum !"
I need to know why you chose "Gangster's Paradise" for this
I think he adds it in when he reaches a piece of railway with a lot of appeal, hence the toot-toot at the end haha. Plus in his Austrian rail video he "rapped" to it as well..
its from another video where he actually "raps" over it...very funny
It's a trainspotter's paradise
Man it seems i am going to be addicted to traveling too soon
Try Crovie in Banffshire - it's worth it.
3:38 getting Semmering flashbacks.
Late to this party, new to Tim so on catch up mode .... and I'm wondering how many poor souls were screaming in disbelief at "MaggieknockTATER".
Maggie-knock-ter with the r being almost silent ;)
Why is this the first video in the playlist when it is Episode 3?
Nice video! I do have a tip for you, since this is a traveling channel you should consider buying a gimbal for your camera that way you will get even more quality on your vids.
Cheers point point, yeah my mate suggested that too. I may need to invest in one of those soon.
You heard it here first: RUclips is a democracy!
Are you a fan of Paul and Rebecca on the channel "The Whitewicks"? They do almost exclusively abandoned railway stations and infrastructure in England, Wales, and Scotland. Sorry if I could have said that any better, I'm just a colonial from Pennsylvania. 😁
Yes absolutely! We've been subscribing to each other's channels since we had about 50 subscribers between us :) They just did a virtual exploration of this exact same line.
The fochabers old station is still there
Yeah someone else told me that below. I'm annoyed I got that wrong, it's because I read the wikipedia page before going (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fochabers_Town_railway_station), which shows a picture of the location and implies that the station isn't there any more... should have done more research shouldn't I!
"...the disused Murray coastline." What? Um... that would sound weird even if we were talking about the Netherlands. Oh! _Coast Line!_ XD
Buckie balls! Buckminster-fullerine, Carbon C60, but as as I know it has nothing to do with Buckie.
I'm so thankful the RUclips algorithm threw this channel at me. :')
Please keep making more videos, Tim. Also, could you tell me the name of the background track you've used starting 3:39 (find it eerily familiar but I can't identify)?
ruclips.net/video/fPO76Jlnz6c/видео.html
It's an American rap tune called "Gangsters Paradise". I too have several questions about why he chose it.
@@Andreas-dd8ox Thank you so much!
@@missybarbour6885 Hahaha, fair concern.
I have just come here to leave a comment
Does Frances have her own channel about her treks?
I think it’s better walking from Buckie to Aviemore.
Imagine the fun it must be living in Fochabers. Every time somebody asks where you are from you have to get ready for a fight.
I mean if you live in scotland you have to do that no matter what town you come from
Artists Impression... 🤣🤣🤣
What happened to Frances, did she not invite you on any more hikes? =(
It’s interesting at 6:32 you wrote “reconstruction.” Is that a British thing? I feel like in American English we’d say “reenactment.” Reconstruction would be if you were rebuilding something-but honestly even that usage is rare because when most people hear “Reconstruction,” they think of the post-Civil War era.
Clearly, the authorities need to arrange for whiskey shops at frequent intervals.
I disliked that you were entirely accurate about Scottish weather, lol. Enjoyed the series, Keep up the good work
RUclips doesn't seem to want me to watch your videos anymore. I thought I was running low.
Space highwway
You should try to do more videos with Frances. She's a lot cuter than you are. Not that you're not cute -- in the right light. But she's got you beat hands down in that department.
3:39 What's this piece of music called?
mr saxophon Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise
So what happen to the fine very understanding lady who accompanied you?
I was wondering the same. She must be a specalist in martial arts or very confident as I wouldn't go with a man (or woman) i don't know for such a trip.
Tom Joad, I wouldn’t think that Tim is nothing but perfect English Gentlemen, however a little romantic element would make for a nice story
@@marinkagreen9415 I agree. But i live in real world too. ;)
Trees: boring. Trains: Yay!
Funny that you call a settlement with a population of 800 to 1000 "tiny"..I grew up in a 70ish people village :DDD
1000 people is town size in my region of lower saxony,germany^^
Ironically,the town i live in now is only a TOWN because it got the market rights(the right to hold a market) from the tiny village i grew up in^^
Fuckover? Fochova?, Fochaber?
OK, since it's mostly flat, why not bike it?
You should have stopped in and ate at Buckie when you arrived there. The towns pubs are well known for their mountain oysters (aka prairie oysters) deep fried served with chips. Known locally as "Buckie Balls"
Yes I sure did work that hard to make that dumb joke, I regret nothing!
Your mate is cute. Get her in more shots.
regould221 this is a family friendly channel
The RailTourer! I think that might, in part, be what he’s suggesting.
Bjorn Olson I don’t get what your saying..
@@bjornolson6527 best reply evah!
Agreed.
I thought you were going on “The Space Highway”. Unsubscribed!
I think that woman didn't like you and regretted walking🚶♂️🚶♀️ with you..., 🤔
A lovely tour. Wikipedia has interesting details about the "elephant hawk moth":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deilephila_elpenor
Thanks to jwt27 for identifying the creature, Thanks to Tim for yet another great video !