The Next Stop

After years travelling by train between Inverness and Edinburgh, Simon Varwell realised that he knew very little about the places he would merely pass through, and to which he would pay no attention as they rushed by in a train window blur.


So over the course of six days in 2012, he travelled the line and stopped at all twenty-three stations.


It was a trip that led him to the unknown, the beautiful, the isolated, the depressingly mundane, the run-down, and the haunting. From picturesque Highland villages to post-industrial towns, and from crumbling castles to dodgy pubs, a host of curious nooks and crannies across Scotland lurking virtually on his doorstep were finally demystified.


He finished the week with some places he was eager to return to for a deeper exploration, and a few others he will be quite happy to never visit again…