Again perpetuating the myth of Beeching. While he certainly recommended closures, the fact is people need to grow up and accept that BR had closed or run down many branches and stations since nationalisation BEFORE Beeching came along. And the Big 4 had also closed and run down and merged branches and stations from the 1920’s as road freight and buses started to affect revenue. And lines were closed down AFTER Beeching left and had no say on policy. Stop always blaming Beeching.

I finally found this video after many years!

That's what will happen to our bodies, our home, loved ones' bodies. Time reclaims all.

He could have just left them opened without service and it would be in the future reused, but he didn't. Sad to see 1 man decide the decline of thorps and towns without connectivity

I feel like crying my eyes out seeing all this lovely STATIONS disappear and there history GONE for EVER our country is transforming into a know country in front of our eyes.what has happened and going to happen to this country is unbelievable soon enough ENGLAND will become an ISLAMIC COUNTRY and all our history will be history.and nobody CARES enough to stop this from happening.

It’s just such a shame. How economical and planet friendly we could all be with better train links in our towns and villages. They’ve made everyone outside the big cities reliant on cars. Then moan at us for climate change!

Abandoned places look so sad................full of life then, silence now

It's not all doom and gloom. My local line in Fife, closed for decades, is now reopening.

It was a backwards move in the 60's more freight could have been moved with just 1 engine rather than having all these lorries up & down the motorways.

I don't think I've ever heard a more suitable piece of music to accompany a video clip.....

These destroyed train stations are gonna make me turn into a crybaby 😢

Most were and are just homes

Where is the progress?

Beautiful, beautiful piano piece

thank you the labour party for closing 98% of all these lines

Ironic really that with the cost & penalties of running a car these days a decent rail system would be a godsend to most communities now. Beeching should have been shot for his short sightedness.

Make me cry more with that music - I see your manipulation of human emotions :D

DAMM YOU BEACHING!!!!!!!

People were buying cars and not using the railways!

This whole saga was a national disgrace - how Marples wasn't jailed for corruption is beyond me!

So sad! Bring them back, I say!

Woke up with some vivid images flashing in my head, some urgency to be somewhere like the images portrayed here: At the break of dawn, some old timey small town train station, with piping coffee in hand with the steam evaporating at a steady pace, as I claim a corner seat, and it’s just foggy everywhere…. I don’t know if that train came though 💭

There were very few passengers travelling on the branch lines by the time of Beeching. People moved more directly by bus from the 1930's and even more so by car from the 50's. Sadly, railways became as obsolete as the canal system they replaced.

1:37 there’s nothing left 🤯🥺🏭🏠🚂

The poor labourers. It's easy to dismiss things when you don't have the back breaking work .what a shame.

It is so sad!

Pray for bashkirina airlines btc 2937

Sad I miss it

Shame to see the stations no longer being used but left in a terrible state

With the amount of lorries on the overcrowded roads today and now the shortages due to lack of lorry drivers it’s obvious that Beeching was wrong.

such a shame ;(

These places are like old folks, forgotten - there is a feel of emptiness and sadness seeing those once beautiful places in ruins 💔😪

Rubbish ! The first railway locomotive ,which was steam ,was built in 1802 by Richard Trevithick at Coalbrookedale shropshire England ! lt hauled the world's first train at Mether Tydfil Wales in 1804 .NOT passengers but freight !! Tubs of lron ore ! Though there may have been some people riding on the top of the wagons!

Music makes it sad.

Once a wonderful railway now gone

Now it’s cheaper to drive, than sit on an overcrowded train. Privatisation’s progress, apparently.

I blame everybody who protested against steam engins and railways those fuckers look where it got us today

Sad to see, but if it was’nt Beeching / Marples, it would have been someone else. The railways were losing millions!

why

I was born in the wrong era.

Thank you for bringing this and "Lost Wing" back to KZbin. These are the best tributes to both tragedies, by far ❤🙏

Since 1945, the greatest crime in British history.....destruction of rail lines....

Yes no intention to provide a rural train service any longer, that the creators built in the heydeys of rail transport. With renewed thinking and foresight, many of the routes could still be in use today. They were of their time, now cast simply to the memories of thoughs people still living who remember them and to photographs.

If you are going to do a 'Then and Now' try to take the 'Now' photo from exactly the same position as the 'Then'...

lost much of the British heritage to the Beeching report and all those old navies who worked so hard to have these lines and infrastructure axed it was murder of a history now in places lost

it just gives pain, pain, and some more pain, that's all i can say.

Pics starts from 0.43

So painful to see the conditions of these forgotten stations

In poland we had something like this from the end of 19xx to begining of 20xx (to maybye 2009) cause of crisis in the company, lack of equipment and not repairing the tracks (fatal conditon) we closed many of these lines, some of them would benefit cause of the turrists (Karpacz-Mysałkowice-Jelenia Góra)