Re: Dr Beeching

["7916" <not.known@not.admitted.law>]

"E.D. Wivens" wrote in message
<915706252.6496.0.nnrp-04.c2de42f8@news.demon.co.uk>...
>In article <771u23$od4$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>, "David
>Proctor" <daproc@spam_this.umpires.com> writes:
>
>He is however usually portrayed as being a "hatchet man" wielding the
>axe.
>
>I feel sorry for him sometimes, but that's probably heresy :)
>


BURN THE HERETIC!!!!!

:-)

Seriously, I used to think of Beeching as Mr Evil, but in truth he was the
stooge of the politicians of the time.  I walked one of their victims the
other day - The Glasgow Central Railway beneath Botanic Gardens.  Sad, that
was...