DAY 1: BO’NESS – DRYMEN DAY 2: GLASGOW - WEMYSS BAY

Depart from your chosen pick up point and travel by coach to Bo’ness for a journey on the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway. The railway is an extremely attractive private heritage railway running along the Firth of Forth and boasts the largest collection of locomotives, carriages and wagons in Scotland. It takes only a few whiffs of smoke and steam here on the banks of the Forth to become transported to the glory days of the North British and Caledonian railways. The train departs and climbs a testing little gradient to Birkhill station before continuing to Manuel, where there is a junction with the main line. Here we can stretch our legs and watch or take photos as the engine runs round the train, couples up and returns us to Bo’ness. We also have time here to explore the museum, which boasts anextensive collection of steam and diesel locomotives. Following our visit we continue to our hotel where dinner is served in the evening.

Today, following breakfast, we will head for Glasgow and a visit to the Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel. This purpose built museum on the banks of the River Clyde celebrates trams, buses, cars, motorcycles and majestic steam locomotives. This afternoon we will enjoy our own recreation of a trip ‘ Doon ra Watter’, beginning with a 50minute electric train journey from Glasgow Central to Wemyss Bay on the Clyde coast. After time to admire the station building we will board (as foot passengers) one of the two Calmac ferries that sail from the adjacent pier back and forth to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. Here we will have a couple of hours’ free time in this traditional seaside resort. We return by ferry to Wemyss Bay later in the afternoon and continue by coach over the Erskine Bridge to our hotel. Dinner will be served in the evening.