The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish politics, news, history, stories and intelligent analysis from Scotland Opinion: We need a more robust railway system, not an ever-faster one
By John Knox The recent landslips have shown us again just how delicate our rail system is. Like many parts of our systems – computers, telephones, food and fuel distribution, motorways, airports – it only takes a small incident to reduce our apparently advanced civilisation to chaos and worse-than-primitive hardship. Last week’s unusually heavy rain