The End of Steam: The Story of Dr Beeching's Railway Cuts (DVD)

Excellent summation of the subject matter, marred only by 30 seconds of missing soundtrack. Footage would have been improved by application of modern jitter-reduction techniques.

I have just watched this film & I enjoyed it. Dr Beeching 's ideas were good ,though he went about it the wrong way; instead of closing stations, halts & lines , especially branch lines, he should have consulted the local population & those who worked on branch lines, I.e. station masters. & local business people to find ways of making the lines more profitable. I live in North. Staffordshire & thanks to Dr Beeching, we lost all our local stations & lines completely. As a result we have heavy lorries wrecking our roads & traffic jams galore ; & they call it progress!