Summary
OSCAR Wilde once famously said that a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. If he was right about that, then it is clear that we live in a very cynical age. It was Dr Richard Beeching who started it. In 1963, he axed thousands of miles of "unprofitable" railways, thus depriving hundreds of rural communities of their lifeline to the outside world.
In time, the extension of car ownership helped to mitigate the effects of the "Beeching Axe," but 45 years on, this has brought its own problems in terms of the impact on the environment.See the full content of this document
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What Is Left That We Can Value?
The cost of keeping those rural railway lines open was very clearly appreciated at the time. The value of doing so, both to present and future generations, was perhaps less so.
Two decades on, the destruction of the coal industry by the Thatcher government...See the full content of this document
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