He was a former Chair of CREATE (a group campaigning for
rail electrification between Aberdeen and Edinburgh); a chairperson of STAR (Save Tor - na - Dee Hospital and Roxburghe House); and the founder and director of Grampian Enterprise.
Electric trains will be able to run
between Manchester Airport and Scotland from December 2013, Network
Rail said today, as it announced completion of the first phase of the # 400m North West
electrification programme.