Jimbob_Notts
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Interesting stuff guys. Enjoyed (if that's the right word considering the losses) reading your last few posts.
Likewise. I love spawning a monster here and there!
Interesting stuff guys. Enjoyed (if that's the right word considering the losses) reading your last few posts.
Interesting stuff guys. Enjoyed (if that's the right word considering the losses) reading your last few posts.
Likewise. I love spawning a monster here and there!
Oh for a time machine and return to July 1912 and hand Beeching's father a condom ! LOL
Would have made no difference - someone else would have restructured the industry ......
(It had to be done - the real errors were made back in the mid 1950's , if not before...)
Partly true that there were wrong decisions made in the 50's.
But that doesn't negate the wrong decisions made in the 60's and 70's and the wrong ideological thought processes, for example that decided it was worth sacrificing the Lewes-Uckfield line to build a road by-pass.
Another must be the Bury - Rawtenstall line, which lost its passenger service in the early 1970s IIRC.
Ramsbottom is a former mill town which has become a thriving commuter town for Manchester and like the rest of the Irwell Valley desperately needs a rail link to the city. The M66 and M60 are choking and it can take an hour or more to get into work.
Yes, Ramsbottom always strikes me as very busy when I go there.