He could have just left them opened without service and it would be in the future reused, but he didn't. Sad to see 1 man decide the decline of thorps and towns without connectivity
I feel like crying my eyes out seeing all this lovely STATIONS disappear and there history GONE for EVER our country is transforming into a know country in front of our eyes.what has happened and going to happen to this country is unbelievable soon enough ENGLAND will become an ISLAMIC COUNTRY and all our history will be history.and nobody CARES enough to stop this from happening.
It’s just such a shame. How economical and planet friendly we could all be with better train links in our towns and villages. They’ve made everyone outside the big cities reliant on cars. Then moan at us for climate change!
It was a backwards move in the 60's more freight could have been moved with just 1 engine rather than having all these lorries up & down the motorways.
Ironic really that with the cost & penalties of running a car these days a decent rail system would be a godsend to most communities now. Beeching should have been shot for his short sightedness.
Woke up with some vivid images flashing in my head, some urgency to be somewhere like the images portrayed here: At the break of dawn, some old timey small town train station, with piping coffee in hand with the steam evaporating at a steady pace, as I claim a corner seat, and it’s just foggy everywhere…. I don’t know if that train came though 💭
There were very few passengers travelling on the branch lines by the time of Beeching. People moved more directly by bus from the 1930's and even more so by car from the 50's. Sadly, railways became as obsolete as the canal system they replaced.
Just about all of them are now completely erased and replaced with housing and no trace remains whatsoever. I noticed the uploader only included images of what the stations became soon after closure, because the reality is that any later would show boring photos of rows of dwellings and alike. Agreed, it is a shame what came about for 2,500 stations.
Rubbish ! The first railway locomotive ,which was steam ,was built in 1802 by Richard Trevithick at Coalbrookedale shropshire England ! lt hauled the world's first train at Mether Tydfil Wales in 1804 .NOT passengers but freight !! Tubs of lron ore ! Though there may have been some people riding on the top of the wagons!
Yes no intention to provide a rural train service any longer, that the creators built in the heydeys of rail transport. With renewed thinking and foresight, many of the routes could still be in use today. They were of their time, now cast simply to the memories of thoughs people still living who remember them and to photographs.
lost much of the British heritage to the Beeching report and all those old navies who worked so hard to have these lines and infrastructure axed it was murder of a history now in places lost
In poland we had something like this from the end of 19xx to begining of 20xx (to maybye 2009) cause of crisis in the company, lack of equipment and not repairing the tracks (fatal conditon) we closed many of these lines, some of them would benefit cause of the turrists (Karpacz-Mysałkowice-Jelenia Góra)
Funny when you see old photos of station weeks or days before total closure,they still looked cleaner and tidier than our main line stations today,no respect anymore,shame.
I was born in Ide near Exeter and can just remember the line in use. My older sisters used to catch the train to school getting off at St Thomas Station. Just before the line was dismantled there was a special excursion to Heathfield which my parents took me on. I have only two vague memories of the day and that was getting on and off the train at either end. One of my school friends had a grandmother in the village who saw the line both built and dismantled so the line was in existence for just one lifespan.
