Date: 26/03/2013

Baron Beeching of East Grinstead died on 23 March, 1985 in the mid Sussex town’s Queen Victoria Hospital. The railway station serving the town became a terminus in January 1967, when the line that had run through it from Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central was axed, much to the disgust of local letter writers, who had also complained vociferously about the trains steam or diesel when they had run.

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It looks like Dr Beeching was too hasty after all

Telegraph

Fifty years after the Beeching Report axed a third of Britain’s railways, pressure is on to rebuild them