• 2008
  • 30m
Beeching's Tracks

Summary Forty years after the notorious Beeching Cuts closed many railway lines, the modern-day legacy is examined. Each episode looks at a different part of the UK. View more details

  • 2008
  • 30m

Beeching's Tracks

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Pete Waterman Stuart Maconie Edwina Currie Adam Hart-Davis

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 12, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Forty years after the notorious Beeching Cuts closed many railway lines, the modern-day legacy is examined. Each episode looks at a different part of the UK. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 12, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Simon Calder in Beeching's Tracks (2008)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Nov 12, 2008
Norfolk
Nicholas Crane looks at plans to open a Norfolk Orbital Railway, using a network of existing preserved railways and re-opened railway trackbeds which have been turned into footpaths since Beeching closed them in the 1960s.
Episode 2 • Nov 26, 2008
Somerset
in this episode of Beeching's Tracks, travel journalist Simon Calder retraces West Country branch-lines cut in Dr Beeching's controversial carve-up of Britain's railway network. More than 40 years later, Simon says its high time to reopen some of the lines that Beeching closed.
Episode 3 • Dec 03, 2008
London and South East
Episode 4 • Dec 10, 2008
North West
Stuart Maconie looks at the effect of the Beeching railway cuts on transport in Manchester. He focuses on a short 4-mile line between Marple and Stockport which used to allow the journey to be made in 12 minutes but which now takes over an hour to do by car or bus; the car is even beaten by a woman who jogs to work! There is little hope of the line ever being re-opened because obstructions such as a supermarket were allowed to be built on the trackbed.
Episode 5 • Dec 17, 2008
West Midlands
Episode 6 • Dec 22, 2008
East Yorkshire
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