Somerset and Dorset railway (3)

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[69waveydavey]

Correct, he was just the frontman, so he took all the flak, but he must have been crying into his bank statement every night!!

[69waveydavey]

France had the foresight to forbid development of land that was one railway just in case it was ever needed again, here it was fragmented, deliberately although they won't say that. there are very few branches that could be reopened simply without years of all the legal compulsary purchase etc, a job well done by the road lobby backed governments.

[TrainmasterCurt]

Terrible that all that had to go to waste, it should be restored, so shortsighted, just like here in Canada, and all for road favourtism. Now look at the congestion and pollution we have! Shame on Beeching and those oil-can, ashphalt builders. Sir John Betjeman was right, it was foolish, and now we do need branchlines

[69waveydavey]

@TrainmasterCurt If only it was that simple. There's a good book called "The great railway conspiracy" well worth a read. They sold off the land to anybody, as many people as they could, as quickly as they could. All the track was scrapped, the scrap merchants were forbidden to sell the track on, it had to be scrapped. All just in case the railways were run privately and found to be actually profitable.

[TrainmasterCurt]

@69waveydavey So your saying that wicked men purposely did this for greed! That makes me very upset, do you know why this happened? And why the people have no power to tell these wicked men where to go!

[69waveydavey]

@TrainmasterCurt In this country we have a democracy that only lets you see government paperwork 30 years later! they are all long retired or dead. a good 2/3 of the railways here were totally wiped off the map and nobody could do anything. A handfull were saved when they probably affected an odd MP here and there. It seems there was absolutely no foresight whatsoever. The powers that be are now starting to realize it might not have been a very good idea.

[colliecandle]

Beeching was villified for closure of this and many other thousands of miles of our railways, but he was only the puppet and mouth piece of the real villains....Castle, Marples, McAlpine and all who had vested interests in road haulage one way or another. Bit like scumbama in America is only the mouthpiece of the globalists who still rule us now, although quite a nasty piece of work in his own right.

[061369317]

Like in France, many UK branchlines closures were an aftermath of nationalizations. When more and more money is put in less and less productive workforce, money isn't available anylonger to run less profitable operations. Private RRys had customers, nationalized RRys just have taxpayers, that's a difference. If the state knows better how to run businesses (and railways were businesses), why not let the state run fish and ships and pubs too ?

[peterkabrna]

love watching this very relaxing.wish i could visit this line just like john b

[russianpostman]

Thanks for uploading this rare and beautiful documentary. I really enjoyed it, really super.