20m for the Cairngorm funicular? Funding priorities seem to have gone off the rails [The Times]





Date: 31/10/2020

If you listen very hard in the Cairngorms National Park this weekend you may hear the sound of progress - the slow clanking of a funicular railway coming back from the dead.


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£20m for the Cairngorm funicular? Funding priorities seem to have gone off the rails

The Times

If you listen very hard in the Cairngorms National Park this weekend you may hear the sound of progress ” the slow clanking of a funicular railway coming back from the dead.This hill-hugging Lazarus

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