Residents demand answers over rail compensation snub
Campaigners against a 24-hour freight railway are demanding to know why they have missed out compensation while millions of pounds are paid to households next to Scotland’s newest passenger rail line.
Exclusive: Damien Henderson, Transport Correspondent
The discrepancy has prompted calls for the Scottish Government to reconsider payments to residents living next to the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine (SAK) freight route, whose lives have been blighted by the noise of coal trucks operating through the night.
