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Article #72Re: Edinburgh Waverley station improvements
From: Ross
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:33
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:33
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On 6 Apr 2006 15:49:02 -0700, angus_creech@hotmail.com wrote in <1144363742.668886.193580@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>, seen in uk.railway: > Had the railways not been regulated by government in Beeching's time, I > feel we would not have had the catestrophic slashing of services that > we had; it is as if they were on a mission of principle, not economics. No, it would have happened many years earlier instead. The Big 4 had been closing branch lines during the 1930s (and earlier) as road competition bit. WWII obviously meant other things took preference, but I think we can reasonably assume that post-war the closures would have recommenced as more and more people got cars, more and more freight went onto the roads and the service levels offered by the railway became less and less attractive to users. The only real question is whether the same lines would have closed; I suspect that the Big 4 may have kept some lines open which the nationalised industry closed, but equally they're more likely to have closed other routes which survived the Beeching cuts for political reasons. -- Ross, in Lincoln, most likely being cynical or sarcastic, as ever. Reply-to will bounce. Replace the junk-trap with my name to e-mail me. Demonstration of poor photography: <http://www.rosspix.me.uk> - updated with Czech photos AD: <http://www.merciacharters.co.uk> for European charters occasionally gripped by me
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