Date: 30/07/2023

... The alternative of introducing a much improved rail track from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Inverness has much to be commended - certainly in environmental terms. ...

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YOUR VIEWS: High speed rail link better than dualling the A9

Strathspey and Badenoch Herald

Does Fergus Ewing's advocacy for spending £3b on dualling the A9 between Inverness and Perth make much sense?

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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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