PT’s Whitehall insider says: “The media hype over reversing the Beeching cuts of the early 1960s, with disused lines being reopened to facilitate housing and other developments was, in my view, just that – hype. For sure, there is a clear aspiration here, but the strategy paper was pretty silent on how these reopened lines will be funded. Network Rail can’t afford it, so the assumption must surely be that the beneficiaries of the developments (house builders and property developers) will have to pay the lion’s share of the costs of bringing these lines back into service. Not that the strategy paper said so.”
We've read it in: Passenger Transport, December 15 2017, Page 28
