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RAILWAY JOURNALIST WHO SAVED BRITAIN’S RAIL NETWORK

READERS of The Railway Magazine may not realise how close Great Britain came in the early 1970s to losing almost half of the network we have today.

Two people worked together and managed to put a stop to plans for mass closures hatched by civil servants in conditions of total secrecy, and without the involvement or knowledge of the British Railways Board,

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