Firm wins mountain rail contracts lift [BBC News]
Date: 23/12/1999
The final contracts, worth nearly 10m, have been awarded for work on the UK^s first funicular railway, being built in the Cairngorms.
Morrison Construction Ltd will demolish the existing chairlift and assemble the new of the new funicular stations.
The contracts were awarded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) after a competitive tendering exercise which included European-wide advertising.
Morrison, which won the civil engineering contract for the first phase of development in 1998, will begin off-site fabrication of the supports for the railway this winter.
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The final contracts, worth nearly £10m, are awarded for work on a funicular railway system in the Cairngorms.
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