Kintore railway station to be ropened to travellers after 50 years [STV]





Date: 06/12/2012

A railway station in Aberdeenshire will reopen after 50 years, Transport Minister Keith Brown has announced. Mr Brown said Kintore station would reopen between 2014 and 2019. The station was closed in the 1960s after more than 100 years in service.


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