Could the Great Central Railway be reopened?
Tyrese Kassulke
2025-05-10 13:52:37
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I congratulate all the people, most of them volunteers, who’ve worked so hard to restore parts of the Great Central Railway and now hope to reconnect the two reopened bits of the line. Had it been left in service, an upgrade would have cost a fraction of the money poured into Boris Johnson’s vanity HS2 project. The closure came about because of the Beeching report, published in 1963. Dr Beeching had been employed to produce it by the then transport minister Ernest Marples. Sadly, the incoming Labour government allowed much of the report to be implemented, possibly because it had many other things to deal with after what Harold Wilson called “13 years of Tory misrule” and a rightwing press, with an apparently short-term memory, eager to blame our country’s many woes on newly elected lefties.
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