Steam Train Crossing Rannoch Moor On History Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a steam train crossing Rannoch Moor on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Scottish Highlands. Scottish Gaelic: Mòinteach Raineach, on Outlander visit to the Scottish Highlands. When the West Highland Railway Line was built across Rannoch Moor, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes to prevent the heavy steel tracks sinking in the bog. The boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch was used as a filming location for the television series Outlander, and also for a short scene in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. In the Highlander novel, The Element of Fire, Duncan and Connor MacLeod track the antagonist Khordas to Rannoch Moor. There Duncan defeats Khordas' female companion, Nerissa. The Moor is an expanse of around 50 square miles of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Scotland, where it extends from and into westerly Perth and Kinross, northerly Lochaber, and the area of Highland Scotland toward its south west, northern Argyll and Bute. Rannoch Moor also features in the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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