Plans to re-open the railway between Dumfries and Stranraer are back on the agenda. The proposal to bring back the Paddy Line – popular before the Beeching cuts closed it in the 1960s – were included ...

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Only those of a certain vintage can remember travelling between Stranraer and Dumfries by train. The 73-mile (120km) line shut on 14 June 1965 - one of numerous victims of Beeching cuts to routes ...