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Old May 13th 16, 10:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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In message , at 10:41:44 on
Fri, 13 May 2016, remarked:

Besides like hundreds of miles of other line it had closed before he
was appointed though people always seem to blame Beeching for them.


I always wonder what people would have thought of Beeching had he
recommended an insufficient number of cuts and BR was then forced into
the equivalent of receivership with only the Intercity lines (and a few
commuter services on the same rails) surviving.
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Roland Perry