Re: Dr Beeching

["Terry Harper" <Terry.Harper@btinternet.com>]

In the early 1960s, you could not book to Great Longstone when it was
proposed for closure. You had to book to Bakewell and pay the excess, coming
from the south.

Ian Johnston wrote in message <772o3a$bgn$1@news.ox.ac.uk>...

>: I exaggerate a bit, but it appears that in many cases:
>: - fares were credited to the purchase station only
>
>When BR were trying to close the Cambrian Coast line in the eighties they
>went one step further: it was not possible to buy a ticket from
Aberystwyth,
>Tywyn and so so to anywhere further away than Shrewsbury. Remarkably
enough,
>the revenue from the CC showed a marked and uneconomic decline...