Beeching - 50 Years of the Axeman【電子書籍】[ Robin Jones ]

＜p＞Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain, it was half a century ago that Dr Richard Beeching was appointed as chairman of British Railways with one key directive ? to cut the soaring losses.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 1950s had seen the start of a mass shift from public to private transport, as lorries, cars, buses and motorbikes replaced trains as Britain’s most popular means of travel.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So often pilloried by the press and public for closing numerous picturesque and romantic country branch lines, leaving even many large towns cut off from the railway network, Beeching might also be seen as merely streamlining a process that was already underway.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Back in the early Sixties, there were many who thought that not only were the days of steam locomotives numbered, but those of railways too, as mankind, leaping towards the first lunar landings, looked toward hovercraft and hovertrains as the transport of the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Against the dynamic background of the greatest decade of c．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る