Date: 25/02/2023

A North rail campaign group hopes the Scottish Government 'avoids the temptation' to fully dual the A9 and listens less to the 'powerful' roads lobby.

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A North rail campaign group hopes the Scottish Government "avoids the temptation" to fully dual the A9 and listens less to the "powerful" roads lobby. The

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Southbound service passing under one of the two new flyovers at Ballinluig. To the right of the train the A9 dual carriageway can be seen which now has the national maximum speed limit of 70mph.
Location: Ballinluig
Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
15/07/2008 Brian Forbes

Putting the second track back 11 years after it was lifted - a southbound Highland Main Line train passes a continuous corridor of new concrete sleepers between Dalnaspidal and Blair Atholl in 1977. Note the new A9 under construction, above left. The location is near The Wade Stone, about a mile west of the former Edendon Box, just on the approach to the bridge over the River Garry.
Location: Edendon Signal Box
Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
//1977 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)

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