{"id":2989,"date":"2010-12-16T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:10","slug":"scotrail-discounts-with-mcofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/scotrail-discounts-with-mcofs\/","title":{"rendered":"ScotRail discounts with MCofS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mcofs11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mcofs\" width=\"118\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2992\" \/>Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) members can enjoy half price tickets from ScotRail for journeys on the Highland lines in winter 2011. The offer is valid from 2nd January 2011 to 31st March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The 50&permil; discount offer is available on the following routes (includes intermediate stations):<br \/>\nFort William to Mallaig<br \/>\nInverness to Kyle of Lochalsh<br \/>\nInverness to Wick\/Thurso<\/p>\n<p>MCofS Chief Officer, David Gibson said: &#8220;Our members are always keen on a bargain and thanks to ScotRail they now have the chance to use the train for a trip to the hills, or simply to enjoy the spectacle of some of Scotland\u2019s finest mountain landscapes in winter conditions.  Either way, it\u2019s a great offer not to be missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MCofS Membership Development Officer Mike Dales said: \u201cUnlike the rest of the human population, mountaineers tend not to hibernate in winter.  We are a group of people that travel around in search of snow covered mountains, so it is great news that we can travel by train this winter and enjoy a generous discount from ScotRail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of the MCofS quarterly magazine, Scottish Mountaineer, contains an article entitled \u201cWalking from the West Highland Railway\u201d by Tim Woods.  Anyone joining the MCofS now will receive this magazine and be entitled to the ScotRail winter offer. For further details of the offer visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcofs.org.uk\/discounts-shorttermoffers.asp\">MCofS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) members can enjoy half price tickets from ScotRail for journeys on the Highland lines in winter 2011. The offer is valid from 2nd January 2011 to 31st March 2011. The 50&permil; discount offer is available on the following routes (includes intermediate stations): Fort William to Mallaig Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh Inverness to Wick\/Thurso MCofS Chief Officer, David Gibson said: &#8220;Our members are always keen on a bargain and thanks to ScotRail they now have the chance to use the train for a trip to the hills, or simply to enjoy the spectacle of some<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/scotrail-discounts-with-mcofs\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22591,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/22591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}