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09-Feb-19, 00:21
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

Government has shunted reduced train journey time into the sidings




Labour MSP Rhoda Grant is warning train passengers not to expect a two hour and 45 minute journey time on the Highland Main Line anytime soon. Scottish Government Transport Minister, Michael Matheson, has stated the quicker journey time is now ‘a long-term aspiration' despite a commitment made by Alex Salmond, the then First Minister, in August 2008, to reduce train journey times between Inverness and Edinburgh to at least two hours 45 minutes by 2012. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/9021)]