Aviemore Railway Davy Nelson

Strathspey Heather & Rail Tour

A day tour through the Cairngorms National Park with a Steam Train, Highland Folk Museum, Heather Centre and a Jacobite Fortress.

Next Tour Dates

To be announced.
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Pick up points

  • Green Park Hotel Pitlochry
  • Fishers Hotel
  • Atholl Palace Hotel

Return

Pitlochry

Highlights

  • Steam Train
  • Speyside Heather Centre
  • Highland Folk Museum
  • Ruthven Barracks

This full day tour will take you through the Cairngorms National Park and a variety of Highland experiences.

Enjoy a ride on a Steam Train, visit the Highland Folk Museum and shop at the Heather Centre.

Tour Itinery Details

Steam Train

10:30am | Steam Train

  • Nostalgic journey into the past
  • Travel on the famous Steam Train between Aviemore and Broomhill

Take a nostalgic journey into the past and travel on the famous Steam Train between Aviemore and Broomhill.

Speyside Heather Centre

11:20am | Speyside Heather Centre

  • Heather Centre
  • Break and light lunch

From Broomhill you will continue your journey by coach to the nearby Heather Centre where we will take a comfort break and light lunch.

Highland Folk Museum

12:50pm | Highland Folk Museum

  • Visit the Highland Folk Museum
  • Learn how the highland people lived and worked in the period 1700- 1960

Travel on to Newtonmore and visit the Highland Folk Museum. Learn how the highland people lived and worked in the period 1700- 1960.

Ruthven Barracks

3:00pm | Ruthven Barracks

  • Dramatic Ruthven Barracks in Kingussie
  • Jacobite Fortress

Finally, journey to the historical Ruthven Barracks in Kingussie.

Built in the early 1700,s to quell the Jacobite uprising, it represents a number of fortifications established in Scotland around that time. Although now mostly in ruins much of the stonework still stands today.

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