Originally Posted by
Thud_and_Blunder
Re Macrihanish, ISTR that it was one of the stations on which they had just finished spending a large amount of money - something in the order of £5million - on improvements shortly before the closure was announced.
Shurely this is a well established M.o.D policy...spend and upgrade, then..close ! Acklington gained a certain infamy in this respect did it not, the resident ghost presumably stayed on.