Survey of the Consequences of Railway Closure, 1969-1978

<p>The purpose of this study was to establish who used the local railway lines in areas experiencing the closure of a local line between 1969 and 1976, and the effect of closure on these people.</p><p>The 10 areas surveyed were among the 47 services withdrawn from the less urbanised parts of Britain during this period. Most or these were proposed for closure in the Beeching Report of 1963. Since Beeching, successive Ministers of Transport had approved the withdrawal of 265 passenger services on over 1,700 route miles representing about 10 per cent of the 1963 railway network.</p>