Railway Renaissance. Britain's Railways After Beeching - David, Gareth
Britain's Railways after Beeching
KORTE INHOUD
When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant reopening of any UK railway since the infamous Beeching Report, 'The reshaping of British Railways', was published in March 1963. In his report, Dr Riochard Beeching recommended sweeping closures of lines across the UK to improve the financial performance of British railways, which led to wholesale closures over the following decade and a reduction in the UK rail network from 18,000 miles in 1963, to some 11,000 miles a decade later. But since that low point was reached in the early 1970s a revolution has been taking place. Passenger traffic on the railways is now at its highest level since the 1940s and from Alloa to Aberdare, as well as from Mansfield to Maesteg, closed lines have reopened and the tide of Beeching closures has been gradually rolled back. Scores of stations have been reopened and on many of the newly revived lines, passenger traffic is far exceeding the ...
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2017Uitgever: Barnsley, Pen & Sword330 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1473862000ISBN-13: 9781473862005Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: David, Gareth] [Pagina's: 330] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Barnsley, Pen & Sword] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: Railway Renaissance. Britain's Railways After Beeching]
