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Eleven out of 10 must go to Mark Came, Phil Verster, Peter Hendy and especially Scottish transport minister, Derek Mackay, for their intervention at one minute to midnight to make Flying Scotsman's long planned trips over the new Borders Railway and the Fife Circle in May happen.
However, minus several million to Network Rail for its earlier cancellation of the trips after failing to measure up both routes for the A3 - despite having been given the specifications for the tours by train operator West Coast Railways three months before.
The question everyone is asking, and right so, is - if it could be done as a response from pressure on high right up to Scottish Government level in just a few hours, so the trips went ahead, what were Network Rail planners up to in the previous 12 weeks?
However, minus several million to Network Rail for its earlier cancellation of the trips after failing to measure up both routes for the A3 - despite having been given the specifications for the tours by train operator West Coast Railways three months before.
The question everyone is asking, and right so, is - if it could be done as a response from pressure on high right up to Scottish Government level in just a few hours, so the trips went ahead, what were Network Rail planners up to in the previous 12 weeks?
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