Just rolling

Well, apparently there is planned engineering work on the line between Edinburgh and Newcastle on the weekend we’re returning from John O’Groats. The upshot is that we’ll have to catch the 6:23am train from Wick, and the journey includes a replacement bus service from Edinburgh to Newcastle. But can we get four bikes on the Wick-Inverness train? And will the replacement bus service take bikes at all?

I have actually considered booking EasyJet tickets back to London from Inverness, but they require bikes to be packaged in bike boxes or bags. I’m not confident that we be able to buy them in Inverness on a Saturday morning. This is quite apart from the fact that they cost £80 each.