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Originally Posted by Chris
The real scandal of the Beeching cuts isn’t just that lines were closed but that no provision was made to reverse closures in future. The Beeching Report was as complacent as it was short-sighted.
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One of the dafter things was making Milton Keynes a new town at the same time as lifting the rail connections to Oxford and Cambridge. Completely disconnected thinking. Same thing happened with Skelmersdale too. Siloed thinking.