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19 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Every time you see a proposal for a new station it's a big car park and access road, a couple of fugly lift towers and a bus shelter stuck on the platform as an afterthought
A Scotrail one anyways
That's Inverness Airport by the way. For comparison here are recent proposals for East Linton and Reston
Kintore.

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Today's auction house artefact is this charming and rather Old Testament early 1960s advertising poster for the Clyde Shipping Company (incorporated in Scotland). the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…
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