TRANSPORT POLICY IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS

A reporter describes how construction works for the North Sea oil industry have helped to save railway services and lines from Inverness during the 1970s. (clip)

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Title: TRANSPORT POLICY IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS

Reference number: N0183

Date: 1980

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.25 mins

Description: Current affairs programme discussing transport policy in the Highlands and Islands.

Shotlist: gvs over landscape and industries of the North East; the ferry Rosehaugh (0.25) presenter to camera (0.51) gvs construction work on the Kessock Bridge (1.16) shot of the Bonar Bridge over the Cromarty Firth (1.21) shot of the Dornoch Firth (1.35) interview with Stan Picket, senior planner for the Highlands and Islands Development Board (2.09) gvs P&O ferry St. Clair with vehicles loading and unloading (2.38) gvs roads in the Highlands (2.54) shot of interview (5.22) shot of lorry travelling on country road (5.38) fuel tanker lorry driving off ferry (5.41) interview (6.35) presenter to camera in front of static train (6.45) moving shots from train on the Kyle line, finishing at Ardgay station (7.14) gvs busy train station (7.40) gvs Inverness Airport (8.04) aerial shot of Sumburgh Airport, Shetland and gvs Chinook helicopters taxiing on runway (8.36) interview (8.55) shots of construction work on roads and shot of road (9.08) interview (10.25)