ISBN: 9781909328471 - the decline and fall of the westerham railway: a prelude to beeching (15 Ergebnisse)

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Glazed Boards. Zustand: As New. 1st. Well illustrated account of how BR managerts went about closing this short branch line near Sevenoaks in the pre-Beeching era. 208pp. As new copy in glazed boards.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For over 50 years myths have abounded about the closure of the Westerham branch line. This explosive new account investigates how British Railways managers went about closing a well-loved branch line. Using official papers and documents kept hidden for many years, the book reveals how users of the line almost managed to keep it open and that BR had even started to electrify it only for Ernest Marples, the controversial Minister of Transport, to insist that closure must go ahead. Starting with a history of the branch line from Westerham through Brasted and Chevington to Dunton Green, we learn of the difficulties experienced before it opened for traffic in July 1881. However, by 1960 competition from buses meant that the railway was reportedly losing £26,000 a year and the last public services ran in October 1961. Pressure persuaded British Railways to grant a local interest group permission to lease the railway, a decision later rescinded in view of plans for what would become the M25 motorway.This unhappy story is now laid bare: warts and all. The book exposes how, when local people and enthusiasts tried to bring their railway back to life, civil servants and BR managers were panicked by the prospect that a preserved Westerham line might prove local railways could be run more efficiently, at the time when the government was determined to sacrifice the rail network upon the altar of an upgraded road system. It describes the deception and increasingly underhand methods that were used to block the scheme and how the truth of the closure.…

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