

“Reversing Beeching – Reshaping Britain’s Railways for the 21st Century”
“Reversing Beeching – Reshaping Britain’s Railways for the 21st Century” Andrew Adonis lecture, Institute for Public Policy Research, 7th June 2019 Today I set out a plan for systematically reversing the Beeching rail closures in respect of large towns, and districts of cities, which lost their rail services in past decades. The plan would lead, starting now, to the reopening or creation of at least a hundred stations serving around two million people. Much of this would be b