"We had twelve days, to go over 70 miles from the West Coast to the east Coast of Scotland. That involved all the building, and getting the train from one end to the other. In terms of scale, you’re talking about basically half of the trans-Siberian railway built in 12 days. And some of the hills we had to go over were pretty tall – in terms of scale, one of them was the equivalent of one-and-a-half Everests."
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The Biggest Little Railway in the World
The Biggest Little Railway in the World (BLR) was a temporary 71 mile (114 km) 1.25 inches (32 mm) O-gauge model railway from Fort William to the City of Inverness, the two largest settlements in the Scottish Highlands. It has been described as a crackpot project to run a model train the length of the Great Glen Way by an army of madcap enthusiasts, geeks, and engineers in the best spirit of eccentric Britishness.
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