In this book, author David Clough looks back to the Beeching Report. The book covers the need for change on the railways at the time and looks in some detail at Dr Beeching’s plans for the railways, including the closure of many rural lines. Also looks at how British Railways operated in the years running up to the Beeching Report in 1963. Well illustrated with black & white photographs. Hardback. 160 pages. Published 2013.