June 16: Homeward bound

 Just one daytime train gets me back to London from INV. On weekdays it departs at 7:55, far too early for me, but on Sundays it's a comfortable 9:40 and takes 15 minutes longer. That hardly matters on a 8-hour journey.

The scenic part is virtually all the way to Newcastle, so that's the bit these photos cover.

My seat for 8 hours

Breakfast

Dalwhinnie

Dalnaspidal

Pitlochry, Gateway to the Highlands

Wallace monument, Stirling

River Forth, Stirling

Lunch

Berwick-upon-Tweed and River Tweed

The pimple in the distance is Holy Island

Newcastle and River Tyne

From KGX it was bus (I don't much like the Underground), train, bus to get home before 8pm. 

On the train from INV I looked into the possibility of partly retracing my steps to experience the two scenic routes I'd never previously covered which I'd had to miss because of cancelled trains. These are OXF to HFD (see Day 01) and LDS to CAR (see Day 06). There were two days remaining on my Rail Rover and, yes, it was possible:

See Day 13