I stayed in Renton Cottage located off the platform end

at Rannoch station with friends a couple of times taking winter breaks a few years ago. When we were there, our morning peace and quiet was broken by Class 37s on the sleeper and freight services rather than 67004 'Cairn Gorm' as seen here. Renton Cottage was built for James Renton who was one of the directors of the West Highland Railway who put a substantial amount of his personal fortune into the company in order for the railway to be completed in 1893. The technical problems of the constructing the line across Rannoch Moor nearly bankrupted him and the company costing an estimated one point one million pounds. There is a stone bust of James Renton carved into a huge lump of rock on the platform end at Rannoch station just to the left of where I am standing.