The campaign to turn Britain's railways into roads
Autocar | 20.02.2026 15:00
"The death knell of British railways" is commonly held to have been rung by Dr Beeching in 1963 but, surprisingly, at least one writer heard it as early as 1912, claiming that "motor cars must supplant them" – despite there then being only about 150,000 slow motorised vehicles using often indirect roads.
