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Hello and a warm welcome to the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

Thank you very much for downloading us.

I'm Mark Stephen.

And I'm you and Michael Rath and this week I've been having a ball.

And the possibility of steam trains coming back to Apperdine.

Because we love a steam train on this podcast. We do like a steam train. We can't get enough of steam trains coming back to Aberdeen. Because we love a steam train.

We do like a steam train.

We can't get enough of steam trains.

I've been right up on the Murray Coast in a place that's regarded as the epitome

of deuce and staid,

you know, to put it in Scots.

It's a very, very nice wee place

and incredibly, it was really built

off the proceeds of smuggling. A massive,

massive industry in its day. Anyway, back in 1812, the Forest of Glenfessie was offered

for sale as summer grazing for black cattle or for shooting grounds. And that made it one of

the first in Scotland to offer private shooting. For nearly two centuries, it was the go-to

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