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Re: Dr Beeching

Subject: Re: Dr Beeching
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:28:31 +0000
Newsgroups: aus.rail, uk.railway
Organization: Demon Internet
References: <7718qd$2bv$1@eplet.mira.net.au><771u23$od4$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net><915706252.6496.0.nnrp-04.c2de42f8@news.demon.co.uk><UnBjxEIWWMl2EwIB@romana.davros.org> <zCYFRkDAwMl2EwOS@blakjak.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@davros.org>

In article <zCYFRkDAwMl2EwOS@blakjak.demon.co.uk>, David Stevenson
<david@blakjak.demon.co.REMOVETHIS.uk> writes
>  I understand that the Conway Valley line survived despite being
>earmarked for closure when they managed to prove the accounting wrong.

A common comment is that they'd have never got away with half the stuff
these days, because people would actually query the accounting. In those
days the enquiries tended to accept the numbers at face value without
looking at them.

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