Lockerbie Revisited time I disagree with what someone posts." On the VPRO website there are links to June 2005 interviews by Gideon Levy featuring Dr Jim Swire and Professor Robert Black. Lockerbie Revisited "Lockerbie Revisited" is a 52-minute episode of the Dutch VPRO documentary television series "Backlight" () which was broadcast in the Netherlands on the eve of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's second appeal against conviction that started at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh on 28 April 2009. The film's director, Gideon Levy, narrates in Dutch and conducts interviews in English with retired FBI officer Richard Marquise, Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Henderson
Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway had traditionally been significant trade movement along the Lockerbie - Lochmaben - Dumfries road. In 1847 the Caledonian Railway (CR) opened its main line through Lockerbie. In 1848 a line between Carlisle and Dumfries was opened, and was extended to complete a Carlisle - Dumfries - Kilmarnock - Glasgow route in 1849; the company building that route became the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) in 1850. The arrival of the railway brought cheap coal to the communities served, and helped farmers by cheaply bringing fertiliser in and farm produce away. Lochmaben felt itself at a disadvantage to its neighbours,