All Aboard the Jacobite: A Steam Train Journey Through the Scottish Highlands

The Travel Magazine | 11.02.2026 21:32
A thin veil of steam drifted across the platform at Fort William as I boarded the Jacobite train. I’d arrived in the Highlands a few days earlier on the Caledonian Sleeper, but this was the experience I’d been looking forward to, a journey through some of Scotland’s most dramatic scenery aboard one of the world’s most famous steam trains.