hello moving away from my last post and on a lighter note i remembered what i wanted to orginaly talk about.
picture this its the 1960s and the north yorkshire town of whitby was important for 2 reasons fishing and trains.
the town was served by trains by a coastal rote from scarborough a route from the north via grosmount a route via battersby and one from middlesborugh.
enter doctor beeching who took the axe to whitby and closed all the other routes except the one from middlesborugh requring a reversal at battersby.
meanwhile a preservation society the north yorkshire moors preservation society
who was later to earn a large amount of cash during the filming of heartbeat was formed to save 17 miles of track between pickering and grosmont .
during its british rail days B.R stubbonly refused to allow the nymr to run on its tracks into whitby from pickering.
now B.R has gone and the nymr is allowed by%2
train talk by panto andy
train talk by panto andy
"Beeching believed railways should be a business and not a public service, and that if parts of the railway system did not pay their way—like some rural branch lines—they should close. His reasoning was that once closed, the remaining system would be restored to profitability".
Stupid short-sighted little cretin. Nobody in all history ever got something so big so wrong.
Guess which political party closed half of Britain's railway stations because of this daft bugger's report, eh?
Stupid short-sighted little cretin. Nobody in all history ever got something so big so wrong.
Guess which political party closed half of Britain's railway stations because of this daft bugger's report, eh?
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spot;916814 wrote: "Beeching believed railways should be a business and not a public service, and that if parts of the railway system did not pay their way—like some rural branch lines—they should close. His reasoning was that once closed, the remaining system would be restored to profitability".
Stupid short-sighted little cretin. Nobody in all history ever got something so big so wrong.
Guess which political party closed half of Britain's railway stations because of this daft bugger's report, eh?
Don't I recall that the country was bankrupt at the time and having to be bailed out under the Marshall Plan?
Maybe he didn't have any choice?
Stupid short-sighted little cretin. Nobody in all history ever got something so big so wrong.
Guess which political party closed half of Britain's railway stations because of this daft bugger's report, eh?
Don't I recall that the country was bankrupt at the time and having to be bailed out under the Marshall Plan?
Maybe he didn't have any choice?
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The Marshall Plan was 15 years earlier.
The lost track was a perfect route to run fibre optics if only it had been held onto for another ten years. The destruction ended up costing a fortune to replicate and we're still nowhere near running fibre to as much of the country as we would have done if the branch lines still existed now. Even if they'd all been retained as cycle routes it would have been a huge asset. All the short-sighted dim-witted fool needed to do was mothball the land instead of selling it off for peanuts.
The lost track was a perfect route to run fibre optics if only it had been held onto for another ten years. The destruction ended up costing a fortune to replicate and we're still nowhere near running fibre to as much of the country as we would have done if the branch lines still existed now. Even if they'd all been retained as cycle routes it would have been a huge asset. All the short-sighted dim-witted fool needed to do was mothball the land instead of selling it off for peanuts.
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spot;918201 wrote: The Marshall Plan was 15 years earlier.
The lost track was a perfect route to run fibre optics if only it had been held onto for another ten years. The destruction ended up costing a fortune to replicate and we're still nowhere near running fibre to as much of the country as we would have done if the branch lines still existed now. Even if they'd all been retained as cycle routes it would have been a huge asset. All the short-sighted dim-witted fool needed to do was mothball the land instead of selling it off for peanuts.
Fiberway have found the perfect alternative - they run them down the canals instead.
A lot of the old lines are still there (minus the track of course) - I'd guess it was only the urban stretches they sold off.
The lost track was a perfect route to run fibre optics if only it had been held onto for another ten years. The destruction ended up costing a fortune to replicate and we're still nowhere near running fibre to as much of the country as we would have done if the branch lines still existed now. Even if they'd all been retained as cycle routes it would have been a huge asset. All the short-sighted dim-witted fool needed to do was mothball the land instead of selling it off for peanuts.
Fiberway have found the perfect alternative - they run them down the canals instead.
A lot of the old lines are still there (minus the track of course) - I'd guess it was only the urban stretches they sold off.