Beeching

  • Great Beeching Survivors

    Great Beeching Survivors

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    While banner-waving protestors who gathered outside stations on the last day of services on their local line may have felt that they were wasting their breath against a Government ‘one size fits all’ policy, that the consultation procedures were purely academic, and that the Labour government which pledged to reverse the cuts re-engaged on that…

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  • Glasgow Central’s ‘ghost platform’to become heritage museum

    Glasgow Central’s ‘ghost platform’to become heritage museum

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    A FORGOTTEN platform beneath Glasgow Central station may be developed into a railway heritage museum – complete with a steam train parked on a stretch of relaid track. The platform, which closed 55 years ago, dates from the opening of the station’s low-level section in 1896, when it operated as a separate entity to Glasgow…

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