The site of Euston’s HS2 station has been cleared for construction, but trains might not arrive there now until 2041.
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IWONDER if Dr Beeching ever thought that his name, or rather his (in)famous report of 1963, would still be resonating round the railway world some six decades later?
Time seems to have softened the harsh criticism that has long been aimed at Dr Beeching and his proposals, which swept away thousands of miles of lines, hundreds of stations, and a whole way of railway life.
I know many Railway Magazine readers will have been lucky enough to have travelled over a number of these lines before they were closed. I envy that, and would welcome a time machine to allow at least one trip over the likes of Waterloo to Padstow via North Devon, or Marylebone to Manchester on the Great Central, or the Waverley Route from Carlisle to Edinburgh.