How Britain fell back in love with the railways

[johnthefireman]

How Britain fell back in love with the railways

A pledge to roll back the Beeching cuts has rekindled a strange national obsession...

[David Benton]

Unfortunately , behind a paywall for me.

[johnthefireman]

Can't rememebr how I read it. I certainly didn't pay for it. Maybe I registered and got a certain number of free articles per month or something. Can't remember. I hate paywalls!

[RRspatch]

Can't rememebr how I read it. I certainly didn't pay for it. Maybe I registered and got a certain number of free articles per month or something. Can't remember. I hate paywalls!

I read it using the Google News hack. Go to Google News and type in the headline "How Britain fell back in love with the railways". The first link will be the direct link to the papers web site. Going there via Google News displays the entire page. This is surprising as most newspapers have reconfigured their web sites to stop the Google work-a-round.

[David Benton]

Thanks. A really good article. I laughed at the thought of the railway managers trying to keep under Thatcher's radar.