Comments on: Beeching and the Railways http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/knowledge/local-histories/beeching-and-the-railways Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:52:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Mark Glover http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/knowledge/local-histories/beeching-and-the-railways/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Mark Glover Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:35:40 +0000 http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/#comment-90 Well, you need to get hold of a book called 'the Great Railway Conspiracy' to find out what a gigantic stitch up the cutbacks were. No thought was put into it and their was a deal of corruption, too-for Ernest Marples, the Tory Transport minister at the time, had shares in motorway construction. It wasn't just the Tories who did it, surprisingly, for many of the cuts where done under successive Labour governments. Time for a real rethink on this issue, and time for some songs about it-one that comes to mind is Cyril Tawney's 'I'm in the sidings now', about a stationmaster who loses his job when his little station on a main line is closed down, for as well as clsoing lines they closed down hundreds of stations ON the main lines.. Well, you need to get hold of a book called ‘the Great Railway Conspiracy’ to find out what a gigantic stitch up the cutbacks were. No thought was put into it and their was a deal of corruption, too-for Ernest Marples, the Tory Transport minister at the time, had shares in motorway construction. It wasn’t just the Tories who did it, surprisingly, for many of the cuts where done under successive Labour governments. Time for a real rethink on this issue, and time for some songs about it-one that comes to mind is Cyril Tawney’s ‘I’m in the sidings now’, about a stationmaster who loses his job when his little station on a main line is closed down, for as well as clsoing lines they closed down hundreds of stations ON the main lines..

]]> By: Alaric http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/knowledge/local-histories/beeching-and-the-railways/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Alaric Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:56:56 +0000 http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/#comment-71 "like a black leather jacket, slinking along the ground" - this is absolute genius! I believe you Will! “like a black leather jacket, slinking along the ground” – this is absolute genius!

I believe you Will!

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