44) Now let’s get back to railways and some of the things that are happening on them today. On this map I can show you one quite small bit of re-routing, typical of many, that has become possible since the four companies were unified. In the old days, if you wanted to travel from Glasgow to Oban you had to go right round here (on the old L.N.E. route) via Stirling. But now that all the rail-ways in Scotland are part of the Scottish Region, trains can run the short way from Glasgow to Oban via Helens-burgh and Crianlarich. At Crianlarich the trains are transferred between the old North British (West Highland) line and the former Caledonian Line.