Carlisle to Glasgow VIA Dumfries!

Carlisle to Glasgow VIA Dumfries! I travelled along the Glasgow South Western Line from Carlisle to Glasgow, stopping off at Dumfries along the way. It was yet another scenic Scotrail route! 🙂

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Hey everyone, Jay loves trains here. You join me in Carlile this morning where I’m about to go have a ride up to Glasgow. Now, usually I would travel with either Avanti West Coast or Transpanine Express along the West Coast mainline to get up there, but today I’m going to be riding with Scott Rail. I’ll be heading up the Glasgow southwestern line which runs from Carlilele to Glasgow via Dumpries and Kil Manuk and I will be stopping off at Dumpries along the way as well. But yeah, I can’t wait to check out this line and see what it’s about. Well, I’ve been to Carlile quite a few times over the years now, and it always feels great to be back at this station. [Music] It does take longer to get to Glasgow Central from Carlilele when traveling with Scott Rail. The line itself is only there about 13 miles longer than this section of the West Coast mainline, but timewise if you were traveling to Glasgow with a vanty West Coast, it would typically take an hour and a quarter. But with Scot Rail, it takes about 2 and 1 half hours. I’ve just made me way to platform 7. I think platform 7 and platform 8 are the Scott Rail platforms and it is the 0954 service I’m waiting on. It does say up on the display that this is a four coach service. There is currently a single 156 pulled in. So I think we’re waiting for another one to pull in and couple up with it. I was just trying to remember if I’d ever ridden on one of Scott Rails class 156s before and yeah, I have I’ve ridden on a few of them. I think it’s been over a year now though since I rode the last one. So, it’s great to be reminded of what the interior looks like. Here at my airline style seat, I’ve got a fold down table, plug socket, happy days. Um, no, there are no nicker hooks throughout the coach. Gutted. I am looking forward to heading along this line now and seeing what the views out the window are like from riding Scott Rail lines in the past. I know they do tend to be very scenic, especially the two that I rode up in the Highlands, the far north line and the car of Leline. They were both absolutely stunning. So yeah, I’ll have to see how this one compares. service. And we’re off. I’ve got 43 minutes on this train now. And I am traveling on an off peak single today. I did check and break of journey is allowed, hence why I’m getting off at Don Freeze. It cost £15.75 with a rail card. It does cost the same for off peak tickets no matter which of the two routes you take from Carl to Glasgow. The same with anytime tickets, but it can often be cheaper to travel along the West Coast mainline because you can buy advanced singles and you can’t when traveling along this route. We are now crossing over the River Sarkc. But not only that, we’re also crossing the border from England into Scotland. After branching off from the West Coast mainline, we are now pulling in to the first stop of this service, which is Gretner Green. This place is, of course, known for weddings. There is a typical hourly service along the southern part of this line between Carlile and Dumpries and then alternate services extend on through to Glasgow central. So yeah, there’s Scott Rail services around about every two hours from Carl to Glasgow. Enjoy the ride. I know passing by mewhere. Well, I didn’t quite know how busy to expect that service to be, but it was pretty quiet to dump freeze then, and I’ve now got about two and a quarter hours to spend here. So, I’m going to head on out of the station and go for a wonder. Dumprey station has got two platforms and it is of course run by Scott Rail. It’s quite big and spacious and there’s quite a few seagulls here. Oh, look. It won the best station award in 1986. What’s this path here? Oh, it’s the Caledonian cycle way. That looks fun. Lover’s walk. What a name. Re I’m off down to the flowing water. I’m just passing by the Robert Burns statue. Robert Burns known as the national poet of Scotland. There’s a seagull upon his head as well. And here I am next to the river N. Now the railway line is going to be following alongside this river onwards from Dumpries. So hopefully I’ll be able to catch some views of it out of the train window. But for now, I’m going to have a little riverside walk. There are a few bridges crossing over the river here, but this one ahead is the Degilla Bridge, which is one of the oldest bridges in Scotland. The current bridge dates back to the 15th century. I’ll have a little walk across it. There’s these I’m going to call them viewing areas in the middle of the bridge. Let’s have a look at the view. Oh yes. Look at that. And let’s have a look at the view from the other side of the bridge. Oh wow. That is beautiful, isn’t it? It’s my kind of view that full of flowing water. Mhm. [Music] I find my way [Music] cuz I find my way. [Music] Those benches over there look like they’d be lovely to sit and have a chill on overlooking the river. I’m going head down towards the Dumprey suspension bridge and then I’ll cut off and sort of circle back around to the station. Although I have still got a bit of time until me next train. So I think I’m going to go find a cafe or somewhere where I can get a kappa coffee and maybe a second breakfast or brunch. [Music] I find my way. [Music] Well, I enjoyed that from King’s Coffee and Books or in my case, King’s Coffee and Avocado on Toast. The staff are really friendly in there as well. Yeah, I do recommend that place. Ret, I’mma go get back on with the train riding. I’m back at the station waiting for the 1253 service. I’ve got an hour and 44 minutes on this train now through to Glasgow Central. And it is a single 156 this time. So yeah, two coat service. I did preferably want a forward- facing airline style window seat like on the previous train, but well, most of them are taken and the few that aren’t, I’ve noticed the windows are very dirty. So yeah, I’ve sat myself down in this seat on a four-seater table and I I can see out of this window better. We are just passing by Port Track House and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. That is a private garden, but it is usually open to the public one day a year. Not this year though, as there are building works going on at the house. And I relax and admire the views along the rest of the line. Oh, and also I need to look out for belties, which are the iconic black and white cows of Galloway. They’re the ones that look like they’re wearing a big belt. [Music] My way. My way. My way. My way. My [Music] We’ve just pulled into Kil Maruk. The train sits here for a couple of minutes. I tell you what, this journey is flying by. It’s also just gotten really hot on this train. About to take me jacket off. And also, I’m still looking out for these cows. Um, I don’t know if I’m just missing them or what, but I’ve not seen any yet. [Music] We’re just departing the penultimate stop of Barhead and I’ve now got what, just over 10 minutes left on this train. [Music] I found my way. Please. And here I am at Glasgow Central. The train arrived in our time and it’s pretty warm here as well. dark against it all. I made it through the day. I find my way. I know I’ll be okay cuz I Well, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from riding along that line with that of course being my first ever journey along it. But like I mentioned before, I am used to Scott railroads being very scenic. And yeah, the Glasgow southwestern line was another pretty scenic one. Out of the window, there were loads of fields and trees and you got little glimpses of flowing water here and there. Yeah. Do you know what? I’m already looking forward to getting back along that line. I’m not sure when it’ll be, but yeah, I will be back along it at some point in the future. And I’ll be wanting to visit all the stations along it as well. Feel like I’ve just said along it quite a lot. Thank you very much for watching everyone. Bye. Bye.