" A wearier looking desert a man never saw, " is how Robert Louis Stevenson described the Moor of Rannoch in his famous novel Kidnapped. Certainly it is one of the most desolate stretches traversed by the West Highland Railway which runs from Glasgow to Fort William, mostly through a sparsely inhabited landscape of mountain and moorland. The original investors in the West Highland Line who were aboard the inaugural train in 1894 must have where the passengers would come from to pay back their investment. The line is still open however, providing travellers with one of the most spectacular railroad journeys in the world.