I've got a new wee #history #video coming later today, but I'm sharing this playlist of my videos about the Industry of Galloway and the Rails that served it.

#Galloway #railways #industrialRevolution #cars #Beeching #BeechingCuts

Galloway Industry: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZywkQyl80s5_pGv4BLwbRfNrxHoTW6nT

Lost Railways of Galloway: Kirkcudbright Branch Line

Here's my latest wee #history #video , once again about Galloway's lost Railways.The Branch Line to Kirkcudbright opened in 1863 and closed just over 100 years later in 1965. Along the way it saw tragedy, triumph and glory as Scotland's Best Kept Station.
#Beeching #BeechingCuts #railways #history #Galloway #Scotland #video #victorians

https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/lost-railways-of-galloway-kirkcudbright-branch-line/

Here's a wee #video of #drone footage from our recent shoot for the Lost Railways video.
https://youtu.be/QfYQhMPhcYY
#galloway #history #video #scotland #railway #beeching

A book which uses the service cuts and modifications resulting from the Beeching Report as a pretext for presenting photographs and information on South and Central Wales lines.

It is detailed rather than strategic, but an entertaining read.

Our review: ‘The Beeching Legacy, Vol 3: South and Central Wales & The Marches’ by Philip Horton

https://booksontheline.com/?p=2090

#BookReview #Beeching #wales #RailwayHistory #Railway

June 3rd already! 😲 Two books reviewed in May dealing with characters and events in South Wales railway history separated by 150 years!

Richard Trevithick and Dr., Beeching!

‘Life of Richard Trevithick with an Account of His Inventions’ by his son Francis Trevithick

https://booksontheline.com/?p=2069

‘The Beeching Legacy, Volume 3: South and Central Wales and The Marches’ by Philip Horton

https://booksontheline.com/?p=2090

#BookReviews #Trevithick #Beeching #Wales #Railway

June 3rd already! 😲 Two books reviewed in May dealing with characters and events in South Wales railway history separated by 150 years!

Richard Trevithick and Dr., Beeching!

‘Life of Richard Trevithick with an Account of His Inventions’ by his son Francis Trevithick

https://booksontheline.com/?p=2069

‘The Beeching Legacy, Vol 3: South & Central Wales and The Marches’ by Philip Horton

https://booksontheline.com/?p=2090

#BookReviews #Trevithick #Beeching #Wales #Railway

The steps and path leading up from the #village to the #nature reclaimed old #railway line, now part of the national cycle network. Before being destroyed by the #Beeching report, this line once brought visitors from far away. They were attracted to the numerous high quality, specialist shops, including a ladies dress shop and milliners. Now there is nothing but one tiny convenience store in the space of someone's front room. How different things would have been if that line had continued.

@WanderingGaia
#ErnestMarples
"He left by the night ferry with his belongings crammed into tea chests, leaving the floors of his home in Belgravia littered with discarded clothes and possessions ... He claimed he had been asked to pay nearly 30 years' overdue #tax ... The Treasury froze his assets in #Britain for the next ten years. By then, most of them were safely in #Monaco and #Liechtenstein.[22]" #TaxEvasion #Rail #Beeching
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples

Monday’s #ImageOfTheDay.

The first Report by Dr Richard #Beeching, “The Reshaping of British Railways”, was published on this day 60 years ago, on 27 March 1963. During the following years 4,500 miles of track were closed, along with 2,500 stations, resulting in the loss of 67,700 jobs.

This image from the Tanfield Railway in County Durham seems emblematic of what was lost in the 1950s and 1960s both before and as a consequence of the Beeching Reports.

The Beeching Axe: Lost and abandoned railways axed 60 years ago

https://www.devonlive.com/news/history/beeching-axe-devon-cornwalls-lost-8286417

#ClosedRailways #ClosedStations #Beeching #Devon #Railways

Exciting plans to relink Bideford Tarka Line railway with rest of Devon

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exciting-plans-relink-bideford-tarka-8154993

Wonderful if this goes ahead. So many areas of Devon & Cornwall completely cut off since their railways closed in the 1960s.

#Bideford #Devon #UK #Railways #ClosedRailways #Beeching #TarkaLine #UKRail

Lèirmheas leabhair: Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines – Where Beeching Got it Wrong #Beeching #book_review #Closed_railways #Spaven #Uncategorized #gàidhlig @gaidhlig https://treanaichean.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/leirmheas-leabhair-scotlands-lost-branch-lines-where-beeching-got-it-wrong/ Le alasdairmaccaluim Leugh mi leabhar fìor mhath mu rathaidean-iarainn na h-Alba bho chionn ghoirid agus sgrìobh mi an lèirmheas seo air Goodreads. Shaoil mi gum biodh e math a chur suas air a’ bhloga, ged

Devon and Cornwall's lost and abandoned railways

https://www.devonlive.com/news/history/devon-cornwalls-lost-abandoned-railways-8095476

#Devon #Cornwall #UKRail #ClosedRailways #Beeching

So many railways and stations closed nationally, cutting off their respective communities. A very sad period.

If left, you can bet you bottom Dollar that #Thatcher would have closed them.

A few have been reopened or are footpaths or #cycle routes, but it's not the same.

Given problems with so many cars on the roads today, a good number should never have been closed.

I get really excited when I hear about the possibility of closed #railway lines reopening, removing traffic from our roads. They should never have been closed in the first place. Just the sort of thing I need to hear when everything is so negative at the moment wherever you look. https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exciting-tavistock-plymouth-railway-plans-7822286 #beeching #closedlines