20 November 2012 Europe

RESTORING UK LINE PROVES COSTLY

There may be a message for South Africa here: think twice before pulling up a railway. If it has to be put back one day, it may prove an expensive business. Fifty years ago, Dr Beeching made his name closing down lines across the length and breadth of Britain. One of them linked Carlisle in England

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