Return to Evercreech Junction [3/3]

Return to Evercreech junction (1985)

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[flanneryged]

What a "Outstanding" stretch of line,what a tragedy that the morons from the Beeching era

saw fit to close this most picturesque line.The revenue this line would bring in today would be

astronomical.The Countryside between Somerset

and Devon and Cornwall is most Photogenic.The

line these days would be "full" of Holidaymakers and Tourists.Also just think of

what the real estate would be worth today.

Such short-sighted vandalism defeated the object of saving money.What a waste.

[js2001b1]

While it would be not much good to express trains like class 43's it would be very useful route for stopping metro trains ike the turbostar's , i' so annoying that today's modern trains don't ge tthe chnce to see how they would perfor on teh S&D linea nd indeed all the other 9000 miles of missing track that was stolen by Marples and Beeching. Marples who owned a road building firm,how corrupt is that. It's also one of the key reasons we have less oil reserves, if you think about it.

[nylonTS]

What a joy this video is

Its sad and good at the same time

Ivo peters must have been a very nice man RIP and Thank you

[aCivilServant]

Interesting shot at 1:05 showing 9F 92245. This locomotive still exists as one of the 'Barry 10', stored at the old EWS shed in Barry awaiting restoration.

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

even the viaduct at preistleigh has gone..........what a waste

[basstrom188]

Some people say that the fate of the S&DJR was sealed when it was incorporated into the Western Region of British Railways in 1958. The old Great western was never keen on this intrusion into their territory. In the WR in the 1950's and 60's there were still ex-GWR personnel now in senior positions who took the opportunity to kill off this long standing "pain in the backside".

[faulcon1]

@theredraven How right you are Dr Beeching gets a fair old bagging for the line closures but it was the Minister of state for transport who made the final decision. Dr Beeching was only doing the job they paid him to do. If he hadn't they would have fired him and found someone else who would. You are right it was the faceless men behind the scenes who wrote off so many branch and secondary lines

[theredraven]

@eastindiaman What about the vested interests of the railway lobby who were funded by the taxpayer?

As much as I adore the S&D, you can't take its closure out on the general population who wanted to buy a car. Take it out on the people who made the railways into financial loss makers. Without them, there would have been no Beeching.

[theredraven]

A lot of people here are blaming Beeching for closing the S&DJR. He didn't. Barbara Castle did. She could have kept it open and she didn't.

Same with all the other closures. Beeching made the report but he didn't actually close any lines himself.

[theredraven]

@js2001b1 Beeching didn't shut the S&D, Barbara Castle did.

In fact, Beeching didn't close any lines at all. It was the transport secretaries who did.

[Simona050]

Wonderful railway. What a short-sighted waste the closures under Beeching were. Today we have an expensive, evironmentally unsound and impractical road network overburdoned with motor traffic. The railways that were closed, like this one are needed now more than ever. If people pay just to enjoy a ride on preserved lines, think what profitable uses the branchlines would have linking towns and cities again today. It's insane the way things are.

[baconsandwich2007]

What I don't understand is why all the lines that Beeching closed weren't just mothballed. Future generations could have reopened these lines for minimal cost. Take the Great Central. There we had HS2 already built and ready to go. But now we have to spend millions to make something that we already had.