Celebrating 50 years of South Devon splendour!

FOR most readers of this magazine, the name Dr Richard Beeching immediately conjures up images of the ultimate railway bogeyman who, through his recommendations to close nearly a third of the UK national network, led to him being described as the most hated civil servant of all time and by the media as the‘railway axeman’!

However, in a real life ‘man bites dog’ scenario, one of the former BR chairman’s more benevolent deeds was celebrated in style at Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway