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Re: Dr Beeching

On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:15:12 +0000, Graeme Wall
<Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:


>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.

Agreed

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

Don't think that was it, remember the fate of the doomed lines was
decided by people who expected/wanted their careers to survive the
downsizing and had an interest in re-inforcing the belief that the
sourceof the problems lay in the lines to be closed and in making sure
nobody else would ever be able to prove them wrong or
 incompetant by making the doomed lines run profitably.

This behavior is endemic to this day all through British industry,
(been downsized a few times myself)   :-(  .

Graham