Where steam brought crowds back to the seaside
In the steam era, a summer holiday was often the only long-distance train trip made each year by many ordinary families, and indeed, was the quickest way to reach your chosen resort.
The rise in mass car ownership, and the versatility offered by owning your own motor vehicle when it came to holidays, saw the railway haemorrhaging passengers, to the point where BR chairman Dr Richard Beeching in 1963 recommended a swathe of
