Walking the Old Railway Line Out to Portsoy

Deveron Projects commissioned Stuart McAdam to make an investigation into the landscape around Huntly in Aberdeenshire, with a focus on the railway lines that had been removed as part of the Beeching cuts in the 1960s.

Using walking as the main method of investigation, the artist traced a variety of lines through the landscape and produced a wide range of responses to the landscape and the ideas that surround it.

Lines Lost had many events, outcomes, and workshops that brought together a diverse range of people, ideas, and conversations. The main outcomes from the project were a publication and a map that documented the residency, and a series of walks, the most significant being the 2015 Slow Marathon event, in which approx. 100 people walked, in a single day, a 26-mile route that attempted to faithfully trace the former (and current) railway from Portsoy to Huntly.