Harlesden
Member
Greetings ladies and gentleman. My first post pertains to my admittedly unusual fascination with the concept of parliamentary services on the NR network.
As I understand it, it is far easier from a legal and administrative point of view to avoid actually closing a little used stretch of line by simply running a very limited service on it, perhaps one train per day or even one train per week.
Is there a list and details of such services anywhere on the web, or are they so few in number that some kind soul could actually list them in a reply?
How different would things have been - in both an economic and a social context - if the British parliament of the 60's had actually voted against Beeching's list of closures but had instead permitted the lines identified as non profit making to be run down to the level of a Parliamentary service? Would these services have survived to the present day, or would subsequent administrations goen for total closure anyway?
As I understand it, it is far easier from a legal and administrative point of view to avoid actually closing a little used stretch of line by simply running a very limited service on it, perhaps one train per day or even one train per week.
Is there a list and details of such services anywhere on the web, or are they so few in number that some kind soul could actually list them in a reply?
How different would things have been - in both an economic and a social context - if the British parliament of the 60's had actually voted against Beeching's list of closures but had instead permitted the lines identified as non profit making to be run down to the level of a Parliamentary service? Would these services have survived to the present day, or would subsequent administrations goen for total closure anyway?