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27/05/2012

Business Scotland David Henderson finds out how the Loch Fyne fishing industry is diversifying into leisure.

Episode image for Reversing Dr Beeching

Duration: 1 hour

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Without much fanfare, Scotland has been systematically reversing Dr Beeching's cuts to rural rail services. In the last 30 years, 62 railway stations in Scotland have reopened- more than anywhere else in the British Isles. In December 2009 the Airdrie to Bathgate Line which had been closed to regular passenger traffic since 1956 started to run again. The reopened service brought rail to an area which had lived without it for half a century. Rail reopenings have enjoyed a cross party consensus in Scotland - but can the programme survive public spending cutbacks?

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Mon 1 Aug 2011 08:00 BBC Radio Scotland only on BBC Radio Orkney, Highlands and Islands

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