The Haunted Bealach Dubh: Exploring the Scottish Highlands

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The Haunted Bealach Dubh: Exploring the Scottish Highlands
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Take the sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands to strike out on an adventure through some of the wildest, most remote terrain in Europe. Discover the desolate Bealach Dubh, considered the most haunted mountain pass in the Scottish Highlands.

The desolate Bealach Dubh (black pass) is said to be the most haunted out of all the mountain pass es in the Scottish Highlands . Take the sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands to strike out on an adventure through some of the wildest, most remote terrain in Europe. Look at a map of the British railway network. You will see for the most part it’s a tangle of mainlines and branchlines: a mesh stitched in a way to serve most corners of the island.

Direct your gaze north, and you see the Scottish Highlands is an exception. It’s served by only a few lonely lines, trailing away from the rest of the network like loose threads from a ball of wool. Two of these threads — the West Highland Line and the Highland Main Line — wander in parallel north, come tantalisingly close to knotting together, then unspool in opposite directions. Between them is a blank expanse where no rails pass. A place where none of the cartographer’s ink was spent. I had long seen this part of the map — the space between the lines — and regarded it as something rather like a gulf to be bridge

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