RAILSCOT | Caledonian Sleeper: Scotland's Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has travelled the world by rail but never taken this train Alastair Dalton [Scotsman]

Caledonian Sleeper: Scotland's Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has travelled the world by rail but never taken this train Alastair Dalton [Scotsman]

Date: 03/12/2020

I had low expectations of any revelations from Michael Matheson when I interviewed the Transport Secretary as part of an SNP conference fringe event on Monday “ but one came within the first few minutes.

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