LAST TRAINS – DR BEECHING AND THE DEATH OF RURAL ENGLAND
By Charles Loft
WITHOUT a doubt, this book succeeds in its aim of giving perspective regarding how Governments before and during the Beeching era, and those who fought some of the individual closures, perceived the railways in relation to other transport infrastructure.
In this unflinching and carefully-chronicled account, Charles Loft sets the scene by considering the challenges faced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the formation of the British Transport Commission and the ramifications of the 1947 Transport Act. The author takes a chronological journey through the evolution of these initial postwar policies and their impact on the railway
