These beautiful journeys in the United Kingdom will bring you through mountains, valleys, and fairy-tale villages.

Though curiously, this iconic line perhaps should have never been constructed in the first place.

Also, it required extraordinary 19th-century engineering to pass through some forbidding scenery with relatively few potential paying passengers.

The famous steam locomotive, Flying Scotsman, heads north on a summer’s morning over Arten Gill.

A train called the Flying Scotsman going over a bridge.Credit:images-twiston/Getty Images

Victorian hubris won out in the end, and we all enjoy the fruits of their labor today.

But toward the end of the trip is the final flourish crossing the spectacular Glenfinnan Viaduct.

The Hope Valley line was completed in 1894 and passes through some of the Peak Districts prettiest landscapes.

The Peppercorn A1 Pacific class 60163 Tornado steam locomotive hauls a special train over the Ribblehead viaduct as it travels through the Yorkshire

A steam train on the way to Carlisle.Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images

Andif youre into hiking, the tiny village of Edale is particularly prominent.

Bees Head make this worth every moment.

Look out for hang gliders and paragliders easing off its summit.

This is a photo of the Jacobite steam train in the Mallaig railway station, Scotland.

A steam train in Mallaig, Scotland.George Pachantouris/Getty Images

Eventually, the River Foyle directs the line to its final calling point of Derry.

A Virgin Voyager stands at Sheffield station,

A train in the Sheffield station.Rail Photo/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

The Lake District is a national park in North West England. It is primarily famous for its lakes and mountains.

A steam train in England’s Lake District on the way to Carlisle.Andrea Pucci/Getty Images

Welsh Highland Railway steam train operating between Caernarfon and Blaenau Ffestiniog, Snowdonia National Park. Wales. United Kingdom .

A train in Snowdonia on the way to Blaenau Ffestiniog.Paolo Picciotto/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

St. Ives, Cornwall, England.

A train by the coast in St. Ives, Cornwall.Kevin Britland/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Beautiful stretch of North ireland rail between two tunnels and beach in downhill demesne close to castlerock.

A train by the coast on the way to Derry.Anze Furlan / psgtproductions/Getty Images

A train on a bridge over a river

A train on the way to Kyle of Lochalsh.Jim Hamilton / 500px/Getty Images