Report on Cairngorms funicular railway structural problems delayed [BBC News]





Date: 21/11/2018

A report into a structural problem that has closed the Cairngorms^ funicular railway for more than month has been delayed.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), which owns the railway and the CairnGorm Mountain snowsports centre, had expected the report on 3 December.

But strong winds and cold temperatures have hampered work to excavate some of the railway^s foundations.


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Cold and windy weather hampers investigations into structural issues at the Cairngorm railway.

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