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What were the mistakes of the Beeching era?

John Helm, Chatham, Kent ME4
28 June 2013
 

Whenever the name of Beeching is invoked, attention inevitably turns to rural branch lines and secondary routes. Hardly anyone mentions freight and, in particular, the high value and lucrative merchandise freight traffic, which virtually collapsed. While the number of passenger journeys remained fairly constant at around one billion per annum throughout 1948-62, merchandise tonnage dropped over one-third (56 million to 36 million) during the same period.

In 1948 merchandise contributed over one...

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