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Ernest Marples: The Shadow Behind Beeching

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If villages cannot sustain a rural Bus Service how do you expect them to sustain a Railway with all its additional infrastructure and staff needs?

His ribbon-cutting speech was probably considered twee even at the time, and it was certainly ignored.He certainly succeeded in reducing the losses and of course we only got half of the proposed changes. John Holmes was a neighbour and ‘friend’ of my father’s and I well remember him dropping in and talking about this case. He both oversaw significant road construction (he opened the first section of the M1 motorway) and the closure of a considerable portion of the national railway network with the Beeching cuts. The project to catalogue the Papers of Ernest Marples began in the summer of 2019 and was largely completed by the end of that year. As he was asked to do, he Identified which railway activities were profitable; which were unprofitable; and what actions would stem BR’s losses.

He planned to avoid paying tax on his properties by involving a Liechtenstein-based company with which he had been involved for more than ten years. Very true, Beaching saved the railways, it could never had continued with the Victorian attitude of shifting everything to everywhere from race horses to coal, in the age of developing Road Transport. Unemployment 23 Nov 1971 But the newspaper proprietors have been saying that for a long time and they are still going down the drain in Fleet Street. One name that still resonates today, over half a century since he left office, is that of Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport from 1959 to 1964.I dare say that elements of the Beeching plan needed to be carried out, but many parts of it didn’t. Tenants of his block of flats in Harwood Court, Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London, were demanding that he repair serious structural faults and had threatened legal action. I wish more would actually go and study the Beeching Report, Beeching identified the fact those very many of those lines had revenues of a tiny fraction of operating costs, they could never pay their way! To be fair not all line closures were due to beeching and a good few closures were carried out due to “rationalisation” but other organisations for example the closure of the paisley cannal line and on to Bridge of weir and houston was carried out in the 80’s and made no sense what so ever. There [should be] an allocation of movements to pedal cycles,” wrote Professor Buchanan, projecting 47 years in the future, “but it must be admitted that it is a moot point how many cyclists there will be in 2010.

I also didn’t like references and citations being placed throughout the text, rather than separately at the end or as footnotes, as this breaks up the reading too intrusively. He would inherited the country in a much better state than he eventually did, but this year’s events had showed up his inability to manage things in a crisis. His first report, published on 27 March 1963, recommended the closure some 5,000 miles of railway, around 30% of the network but less than twice the mileage already closed by BR British Rail or British Railways before his appointment. Unemployment 23 Nov 1971 It is a pleasure to follow the former Leader of the Liberal Party, who is a Scotsman, and my hon.There was an alternative, to follow the Continental model and allow private companies to build the fast road network and charge a toll to the motorist to use it. Where he came from, how he got to those positions of power, and what he achieved are far more significant.

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