Pre-beeching density of railways

[keefer]

As well as his brother-in-law I believe.

[D854_Tiger]

On a similar subject, I seem to remember reading a proposal in about 1964 to close all railway lines & convert them to roads.  They would obviously be very restrictive on loading gauge!  Can anyone else remember something like that?

 

Peter

 

Ignoring the fact that a road is (or should be) vastly more expensive to build than a railway.

 

Nowadays all the built in costs the government impose upon transport schemes just seem to make both so hideously expensive that difference tends to get lost.

 

I know at one time the French were claiming a TGV could be built at a tenth of the cost (per mile) of an equivalent motorway.

 

But then the French have vast swathes of largely empty countryside in which to do so.

[The Johnster]

I think it was just a bit later than that: Ilfracombe was 1970 , Minehead, Okehampton and Kingswear 1971

 

Ticket from the last day of the Minehead Branch, January 2 1971 by Andy Kirkham, on Flickr

 

Souvenirs of Okehampton and Kingswear, 1971 by Andy Kirkham, on Flickr

 

 

 

I stand corrected.