SOS: Save Our Structures - campaigners issue rallying cry

摘要

WHEN Transport Ministers Ernie Marples and Barbara Castle swung Beeching's axe across swathes of Britain's railway in the 1960s, they left behind them isolated communities and gently decaying stations. Track gangs and scrapmen lifted rails and sleepers, while wrecking balls swung against structures. High in the Pennines, Thomas Bouch's great iron trestle across Belah fell to the wreckers shortly after the line closed in 1962.