 Five new routes for England -one for Wales
"allan tracy" <thunderbird57303@m> wrote in message
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> I often find myself looking at pre-Beeching rail atlases or old track
> beds and wondering what it must have been like when these places had
> train services (before my time) and yearning to have been there.
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> Then I see more and more proposals such as this (and for other things
> such as a British LGV) that will probably take years to come to
> fruition and then I realise that it's increasingly likely that I will
> probably manage to miss the bloody lot as my life span fits neatly
> over the most depressing period in British railway history - what
> timing!
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> I only caught the end of main line steam as well.
The trouble with just looking at atlases is that you also need to look at
timetables - and see just how awful were some of the services on secondary
lines.
For example, in Summer 1958 W.R. timetable Moat Lane Junction (with
connections from Aberystwyth & Welshpool) had just 2 through trains to
Brecon. You could change at Talyllyn Junction for a Brecon to Newport
service (of which there were 3 through trains per day), and change again at
Bargoed for Cardiff. From Welshpool to Cardiff took about 6½ hours. Sadly
the Brecon lines closed before I could afford to make such trips. Hardly
surprising that some services were poorly used, and were withdrawn,
sometimes before Beeching.
Bevan
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