Beeching rail protests
Rail campaigners are marking the 50th anniversary of the Beeching Report today by staging protests against cost-cutting. The report, published in 1963, led to a savage axing of train routes and stations.
TUC protest against rail cuts at Birmingham station
Rail campaigners are protesting against railway cost-cutting on the 50th anniversary of the Beeching Report.
In Birmingham, protest leaflets were handed out outside Birmingham New Street station.
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