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    Book Title
    Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
    Genre
    Trains & railways: general interest
    ISBN
    9781849545006

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    During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself to modernise. The bankrupt steam-powered railway, run by a retired general, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high speed electric - or even atomic - express trains. But plans for a gleaming new railway system ended in failure and on the roads traffic ground to a halt. Along came Dr Beeching, forensically analysing the railways' problems and expertly delivering an expert's diagnosis - a third of the nation's railways must go. This was the point at which the reality of modernisation dawned and rural England fell victim to the road and car - at least that is how Dr Beeching is remembered today. Last Trains examines why and how the railway system contracted, exposing the political failures that bankrupted the railways and examining officials' attempts to understand a transport revolution beyond their control. It is a story of the increasing alienation of bureaucrats from the public they thought they were serving, but also of a nation that thinks it lives in the countryside trying to come to terms with modernity.

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    Biteback Publishing
    ISBN-13
    9781849545006
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    139676641

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    Publication Year
    2013
    Subject
    History, Business
    Number of Pages
    330 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Name
    Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Charles Loft
    Format
    Hardcover

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    United Kingdom
    Title_Author
    Charles Loft
    Topic
    Railway

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