SHOCKING: Ernest marples - What They Never Told You

It’s a scandal that the Great Central Railway was ever shut

Letters: Brian Hughes says had it been left in service, an upgrade would have cost a fraction of the money poured into HS2. Plus a letter from Paul Foxall

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2024

Railways still in chaos 60 years after Beecham Report sparked decimation of train network

This week in 1963, Dr Beeching wielded his axe that shut down more than half of Britain’s stations and closed 5,000 route miles of track - costing 67,000 workers their jobs

Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2023

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022