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Re: Dr Beeching

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          "John Rowland" <johnr@turquoisedays.demon.remove.the.middle.five.wo
rds.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> The real mistake IMO was building housing on the closed lines. The
> alignments should have been kept clear or had cheap warehouses and low-rise
> industrial properties built on them, so that they could easily be cleared
> again.
> 
Building houses on the track alignment was quite deliberate and apparently
often specified in the land sale contract.  This was to prevent the line
being resurrected in the future.

Can`t let anything get in the way of the great car economy (and this was
before Thatcher invented the phrase).
-- 
Graeme Wall