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  1. TonyGosling

    Beeching: The wonderful gift of hindsight.

    Forthcoming book by a former MEP which I've seen the MS of. Check out Beeching's history and you'll see he fits the bill too. During the Second World War Beeching, at the age of 29, was loaned by Mond Nickel on the recommendation of a Dr. Sykes at Firth Brown Steels to the Ministry of...
  2. TonyGosling

    Beeching: The wonderful gift of hindsight.

    Are people aware of Richard Beeching's work for Royal Ordnance? First as an explosives expert man during the war at ICI Secondly as one of the key people designing Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, ie the British Atom Bomb, at Fort Halstead near Chevening in Kent after the war. This is a...
  3. TonyGosling

    Beeching: The wonderful gift of hindsight.

    I got this by email Discuss As we know also the Beeching business came in AFTER the crippling 1955 rail strike so there was a political motive IMPLEMENTED by a director of road building firm Ernest MArples of Marples Ridgeway all in all the motive for Beeching is simply financial IMO

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