The campaign to turn Britain's railways into roads

Autocar · 2026-02-20
The campaign to turn Britain's railways into roads

From the 1960s, campaigners claimed buses operating on new motorways would be far more efficient than trains "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 mus