Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
Written by Charles Loft
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself to modernise. The bankrupt steam-powered railway, run by a retired general, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high speed electric – or even atomic – express trains. But plans for a gleaming new railway system ended in failure and on the roads traffic ground to a halt.
Dur: 9hrs 32minsMONO
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