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| 27th March 1963 25/03/2013 at 10:59 #42662 | |
Steam Buff
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this week is the 50th anniversary of Beeching reshaping of britains railways. Was he right or was he wrong? Last edited: 25/03/2013 at 10:59 by Steam Buff Log in to reply |
| 27th March 1963 25/03/2013 at 15:46 #42681 | |
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mfloyd
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Almost irrelevant whether he was right or wrong - the government approved the report. To be fair to Beeching, he was doing his job based on his remit from the government. Poor bloke! The main thing missed was looking into the future of the railways - he took a snapshot of the lines at that time and made his report from that.
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| 27th March 1963 25/03/2013 at 17:41 #42692 | |
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bugali
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i think hes should not have shut all the lines he did, manly the woodhead line alli Log in to reply |
| 27th March 1963 25/03/2013 at 18:00 #42693 | |
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jwsetford
164 posts |
The only reason east grinstead station is still open was because it was his home town and it was the only way to get to london easily. but why did he shut brighton to east grinstead?
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| 27th March 1963 26/03/2013 at 09:42 #42726 | |
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GoochyB
222 posts |
" said:i think hes should not have shut all the lines he did, manly the woodhead lineI'm not sure that he was responsible for Woodhead was he? That closed some while later. His report did include some positive things for freight - bulk trainloads, MGR and freightliner. Log in to reply |
| 27th March 1963 26/03/2013 at 11:01 #42727 | |
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kbarber
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Beeching was working to a remit from the then Minister for Transport, one Ernest Marples. You may have seen his name on various contractors' lorries and signs; that firm got a lot of business building the country's motorways. Any connection may be considered entirely uncoincidental. Alan Williams, writing in this month's Modern Railways, gives an excellent summary. Log in to reply |
| 27th March 1963 27/03/2013 at 07:32 #42766 | |
northroad
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" said:this week is the 50th anniversary of Beeching reshaping of britains railways.He was only carrying out what common sense should have told anyone in his position. You cannot keep throwing money at something, hoping it will turn around in fortune. Not saying that I agreed with everything he did and it was nonsene to keep running branch lines where the users numbered double figures but the whole system needed to be reorganised which was something he tried to do. If it wasn't Beeching it would have been someone elses name attached to the report. Interesting to see the BBC this morning talking about this and live from Kings Cross sig centre as well. Why do they need to take up so much room with the panels when my 6 or 7 pages on a laptop does exactly the same 
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