Nestrans has sought assurances that additional slots released at London Heathrow Airport are retained for domestic flights from peripheral airports such as Aberdeen.
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Nestrans (The North East of Scotland Transport Partnership) is a partnership between Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council which was a voluntary partnership until it was made statutory by the then Scottish Executive now Scottish Government, in 2006.
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These include the re-opening of Laurencekirk railway station in May 2009, plans for a station at Kintore, increasing the number of local trains and working with Transport Scotland to improve and increase rail speeds and the number of trains serving the North East from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.