Date: 28/08/2013

Racing to build a safer road north forfeits the alternative option to improve our economy and the environment at the same time, says David Spaven.
In all the recent debates on reducing the toll of deaths and injuries on the A9 between Perth and Inverness, very little has been heard about the potential solutions offered by the country's safest mode of overland freight transport - the railway.

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DRS 66430 coasts downhill to the south of Gleneagles on 12 April with the 4D47 Inverness - Mossend intermodal, composed entirely of Tesco containers.
Location: Gleneagles
Company: Scottish Central Railway
12/04/2012 Bill Roberton

Two Class 26s pull into Aviemore in 1974 with a northbound passenger service, while sister locomotive no D5321 waits for the road to Kingussie with a Millerhill-bound freight dominated by empty Preslo cement wagons for Blue Circle at Oxwellmains.
Location: Aviemore
Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
//1974 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)

Freights about to cross at Dalnaspidal in the summer of 1970 - looking north.
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Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
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