The Middle Aged Revolutionary

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

V.I. Lenin, 1899

Category: Transport

  • Public Transport Woes: Lessons from My Recent Travels

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    I have worked in transport for over thirty five years. For most of that time I have been a strong advocate for all modes of public transportation. Despite the often shocking price, the occasional catastrophic failures and the intermittent lack of choice of who gets to sit next you, I would often urge people looking…

  • The Beeching Report: A Legacy of Britain’s Railways

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    On 27th March 1963, British Railways published a report entitled “The Reshaping of Britain’s Railways”. The report, followed two years later by “The Development of the Major Trunk Routes”, detailed in full the lines and stations which, in the view of Dr Richard Beeching, the man who wrote both reports, should be closed permanently in…