Ian Hislop takes a look at the notorious Beeching Report of 1963, which led to the closure of a third of the nation's railway lines and forced thousands of people onto the road.
Ian Hislop
Self - Presenter
Richard Beeching
Self (archive footage)
Trevor Knight
Self - Former Railway Worker
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