A pleasant ride thru countryside. Good to find a train cab ride with NO music. Many of us prefer watching the scenery and listening to the sounds of the train. I've been on many rides-If I hear a note of music I disembark!

Thank you. I once lived in Thurso, and this brings back sweet memories of the magnificent Flow Country. As you'll know, the journey is very different in midwinter! This was the last leg of the rail journey for thousands and thousands of servicemen during WW2, almost all of whom were going to Scapa Flow. Many had travelled from smaller towns in Southern England, and by the time they reached Thurso they were exhausted, but still faced a march to Scrabster to board a ferry over the turbulent Pentland Firth - one of Scotland's most dangerous channels. If you arrive at Thurso Station on a cold, windswept, wintry night, it is easy to imagine those men clambering off the train with their heavy kitbags, and gulping down welcome mugs of hot tea and cocoa, and thick jam pieces from trestle tables. I wonder how much of that ended in the waters of the Firth?! Unhappily, most tourists today still head straight for Orkney, and miss the many delights of Caithness. It is full of roundhouses, brochs, kist burials, and chambered cairns such as the magnificent ones at Camster. It has incredible cliffs, e.g. at Holborn Head with its De'il's Brig, the famous Whaligoe Steps, and Duncansby Head (which has a mind-blowing seabird colony in an incredible gully). Caithness has many hidden sea coves tucked into its shores, which are great to explore! You can drive, walk, and cycle directly beneath towering wind turbines, and Caithness has many forests perfect for mountain-biking. There are Girnigoe Castle, Wick Castle, and the Castle of Mey (the Queen Mother's favourite retreat), and several beautiful old stone-built water mills, which are a photographer's delight. I highly recommend a walk along the sea cliffs of Dunnet Head. Nothing beats visiting the northermost tip of the British mainland at sunset on a summer's day, to watch the sun sink below the far Atlantic horizon, with the cliffs of the Scottish coast and Orkney lit up. Winter can be special too, with the northern lights, and walks along snow-covered beaches. Linger a while in Caithness and ask the locals to let you into its secrets. You'll be amazed and grateful!

Nice and relaxing video

I can't think of a better job to have (as long as the weather's nice!)

Aye, lads. Despite Sprinters plying practically all over Scotland, the journey on the Far North Line is spectacular. I love to travel up from Aberdeen to Thurso once a year in the Summer. It's a great journey. The Line from Georgemas to Thurso is slighlty longer than the 6 miles' long GNSR Branch from Tillynaught to Banff which I mind on so well from my teen years in the 1960s. Trains steam-hauled with Non Corridor Coaches. Great days. Charles Beaton (Charlie) Woodside, Aberdeen

Thurso station has had way too much money spent on it 😂 thanks for sharing

Amazing video

I've not taken the train "home" for a few months...time to book a jaunt to Thurso in July methinks.

Such lovely countryside, not spectacular but open, unspoilt and possibly the nearest thing to prairie in these islands. Some people have mentioned the West coast as being "better" but they miss the point I think, Scotland is so diverse.

Really interesting to watch and follow, it would enhance the video if there were some commentaries on the region...thank you for your video

I much prefer what 'Pro & Contra ....' calls the "old clickety-clack" (jointed) track. It has a catchy rhythm to it that highlights that you're travelling at SPEED -- which CWR (continuous welded rail) completely lacks. . Looking at this clip (old wooden sleepers, single track, low speed limit etc), this line to Thurso is obviously run on a shoestring -- one of the scores of lines around Britain that Network Rail & the politicians don't deem important enough to actually spend money on. Many thanks for this video. Also note the cow train spotter at 8:15!

Very nice, as a Bristol Train Driver I wonder if I'd be accepted as part of the crew in Wick depot?

I rode the line in 1980 on a Britrail pass. Not over scenic. . . . but other lines in Scotland ARE quire scenic.

4:35 Marsh Harrier? (guessing!!)

What is a train station?

Sick video laddy

I love the video, but why all the hate on the Class 158? I know, you can't lean out of the windows, and there is no diesel locomotive pulling you, but I took a 158 from Edinburgh to Inverness a few years back and it was quite enjoyable. The train was reasonably comfortable, quiet and the windows were nice and big. Maybe a loco-hauled train would have been more fun but this is still far better than a road bus.

I wonder why he/she stopped short of the trainshed at Thurso.

How did you get permission to do this??

Is this line still open? Seams to go from nowhere to nowhere.

Oh no! What horrible tracks. Is this really the old "Clickety-clack"? Meaning there seems to be no continuous welded rail.