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There are at least two strategic routes that should be re-opened. The East West Oxford - Bletchley, and the Woodhead route and probably the Waverley route through to Carlisle.
Beeching was completely right about basket cases but totally wrong on strategic planning, the trouble was that railways had been written off as "outdated technology" (a term coined at the time by the all powerful road lobby) with no long term future. Check out Earnest Marple's quote on the opening of the M1 "This is the end of Railways"
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Great Central Jack
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