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Re: Dr Beeching
On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:15:12 +0000, Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
>In message <01be3a97$e397c640$LocalHost@default>
> "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.
The most serious problem with the process was to give the BRB property board the
task of getting the best possible price for redundant assets. This in invariably
obtained after planning permission for houses has been obtained.
--
Richard Drew
- References:
- Dr Beeching
- From: "Daryl Cheshire" <daryl.cheshire@dse.vic.gov.au>
- Re: Dr Beeching
- From: "David Proctor" <daproc@spam_this.umpires.com>
- Re: Dr Beeching
- From: news@largeprefer.co.uk ("E.D. Wivens")
- Re: Dr Beeching
- From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk>
- Re: Dr Beeching
- From: anthony@nospam.united-general.demon.co.uk (Anthony Zachary)
- Re: Dr Beeching
- From: "John Rowland" <johnr@turquoisedays.demon.remove.the.middle.five.words.co.uk>
- Re: Dr Beeching
- From: Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>