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Dr. Beeching’s silver lining

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    Graeme Bickerdike Reports… Hyperbole will flourish in the springtime as the nation commemorates the 50th anniver-sary of a butcher wielding his knife; the deeds of a mad axeman. Brought in from ICI to stem the railway’s haemorrhaging losses, Richard Beeching’s initial proposals emerged in March 1963, accelerating the contraction of the network seen through the [...]

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