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Reversing the Beeching cuts – a fool’s errand

Paul Withrington Director, Transport-Watch Northampton NN2
08 December 2017
 

The announcement that the Government has aspirations to reverse the Beeching cuts has a silver lining: thankfully funds will not be available. After all, lines qualifying for the appellation ‘community railway’ often carry no more than a one or two-car train every couple of hours. Even in London this vast grade-separated multi-track network is, in highway terms, scarcely used (see Transport-Watch Topic 15).

The Beeching report of 1963 said that by 1953 the surplus on the...

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