Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain

Beeching's Last Trains

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, History
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Author: Charles Loft ISBN: 9781135773656
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: September 27, 2006
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Charles Loft
ISBN: 9781135773656
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: September 27, 2006
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britain’s railways.

In this book, Charles Loft examines:

  • why the nationalized railways were in such dire financial straits by 1963
  • how government work on future transport needs led to conclusions which would have cut Britain’s railways down by thousands of miles
  • what difficulties eventually halted attempts by Conservative and Labour governments to implement these cuts.

This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in how transport policy is made or how it has arrived at its current state and sheds fascinating new light on the working of government, the economy and the mood of the times under Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Wilson.

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More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britain’s railways.

In this book, Charles Loft examines:

This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in how transport policy is made or how it has arrived at its current state and sheds fascinating new light on the working of government, the economy and the mood of the times under Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Wilson.

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