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BBC Panorama report about BR including interview with Dr Beeching

Burnham-on-Sea. A track led from the station on to a stone jetty. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=51.23423&lon=-3.00021&layers=168&b=1 The station closed in 1951 but the remains of the jetty still exist Google streetview

Back in the early 1980s, I travelled to Waterloo on a service diverted via Laverstock and Andover while work was being carried out on Southampton Tunnel. I got on at Romsey so can't say for sure if it reversed at Southampton or Redbridge. There were posters at Romsey station promoting the fact...

Is this the one you are thinking of? British Transport Films: Train Time (1952). BFI The planning meeting is at around the 16 minute mark

1976: Meet the Commuters | Nationwide | BBC Archive Bernard Falk investigates a modern social phenomenon, commuting. What inspires hundreds of thousands of people to spend up to four hours a day commuting to work in London? How do they pass all that time spent cooped up inside crowded train...

I don't think so as Southampton and Portsmouth are separate unitary authorities and the train passes through Hampshire County Council area between them. It also passes through Fareham and Eastleigh district council areas.

Brockenhurst - Lymington

How about creating a Solent Circle line? Reopen Totton to Fawley Tunnel Fawley to Cowes Rebuild Cowes - Newport - Sandown Tunnel Ryde to Portsmouth.

FWIW, it is the same film but the version I linked to was divided into three parts. Parts two and three are here www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsIIZlH0Rw www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBE2fR0z3CI I think the only difference is that they are in the correct aspect ratio whereas the single-part version is...

West Pennard station on the Burnham & Evercreech branch of the Somerset and Dorset was about 1.5 miles from Worthy Farm as the crow flies. Briefly glimpsed in this film at 3:34

The US air traffic controllers probably thought something similar when they went on strike in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)

Does Weston-super-Mare count or is it just on a loop off the main line?

Historically, Pilning High Level and Pilning Low Level (for Severn Beach trains)

Kirkham Priory from the York to Scarborough line. Pause the video at 30:29 at Kirkham Abbey Level Crossing and the priory ruins are visible on the left Newport Castle is visible from the bridge across the River Usk near the station. Portchester Castle. Tewkesbury Abbey near Ashchurch. Totnes...

Botley station is in Curdridge civil parish