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Holding The Line - How Britain's Railways Were Saved (Paperback)
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Holding The Line - How Britain's Railways Were Saved (Paperback)
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At its zenith, the British railway network was 21,000 route miles
long, twice its present size. Yet it now carries more passenger
miles than at its fullest extent and urgently needs more capacity
to grow further. The massive reduction in Britain's national
railway network resulted from a sustained campaign by a number of
individuals, who believed that railways had had their day, that
economies had to be made and that you could not stop what they saw
as 'progress'. Although the process of railway closure started
early, the pace accelerated during the 1950s and peaked in the
years following the Beeching report- The Reshaping of British
Railways - published in early 1963. However, it could have been
even worse. Original research by the authors reveals plans to
reduce the size of the railway network further and an assumption,
in the early 1990s, that market forces would shrink the network
where Government policies had failed. Had these been implemented,
only a handful of lines would have remained with the network
destroyed forever. The past is vital to understanding today's
railway as the industry struggles to meet the demands made of
it.Trimming at the margins remains a compelling argument for policy
makers unaware of history, and the risk remains that mistakes could
be repeated. Drawing upon a wide range of documents, including
cabinet papers, Holding the Line is an explosive account of how
close the railway industry came to being eviscerated and how the
dangers of 'closure by stealth' still exist in the contemporary
age.
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