CHAPTER EIGHT: Melton Constable
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Topic | Source |
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191 |
Just little wreaths or black flags: |
The Guardian, 2 March 1959 |
194 |
The nation woke up...: |
Manchester Guardian, 6 May 1947; David Henshaw The Great Railway Conspiracy (1991) p 41 |
194 |
The North Sunderland and the mental hospital line: |
Manchester Guardian, 12 June 1948 |
194 |
No celebrations, by order: |
Manchester Guardian, 30 December 1947 |
195 |
Do you mean like this?: |
Charles Loft, Government, the railways and the modernization of Britain: Beeching’s last trains (2006) p 21-22 |
195 |
The railways are a disgrace: |
Hansard, House of Commons, 17 December 1946 |
196 |
Staggering: |
Christian Wolmar, Broken Rails (2001) p 35 |
196 |
Robbery and confiscation: |
Manchester Guardian, 1 May 1947 |
196 |
A blush of shame: |
Manchester Guardian, 8 March 1947 |
196 |
A new staff relationship: |
Manchester Guardian, 1 January 1948 |
196 |
Mr Seaman of King’s Lynn: |
Manchester Guardian, 7 July 1948 |
197 |
I’m paid by the buffet at Didcot: |
AN Wilson, Betjeman (2006) p 160 |
197-8 |
Conflicts and conspiracy: |
TR Gourvish, British Railways 1948-73: A Business History (1986) p 47 |
198-9 |
Sir Gilmour Jenkins: |
John Boyd-Carpenter, Way of Life (1980) p 108 |
200 |
Choking on his whisky: |
Ibid p 114 |
201 |
Once those gaunt strong engines...: |
The Observer, 6 February 1955 |
201 |
The commission never had figures: |
Christopher Foster, The Transport Problem (1963) p 94-101 |
202 |
It was full of mistakes: |
Sir Christopher Foster interview with author, 2008 |
202 |
Whatever the failings of management: |
Loft, op. cit., p 29 |
203 |
The allure of train-spotting: |
Manchester Guardian, 7 August 1951 |
204 |
Boys at Hatfield: |
The Times, 26 July 1946 |
204 |
Ian Allan’s Loco-spotters’ Club: |
Ian Carter, op.cit., p 60-98 |
205 |
Listening out for trains: |
Manchester Guardian, 13 May and 15 July 1954 |
205 |
Drunken youths: |
The Guardian, 24 July 1964 |
206 |
Is there any reason? |
Manchester Guardian, 10 May 1951 |
206 |
Dozens and dozens and dozens: |
Quoted in Henshaw, op.cit. p 75 |
207 |
The Isle of Wight: |
ibid p 66-71 |
207 |
Civilization and progress: |
Manchester Guardian, 25 September 1953 |
208 |
The Dartmoor line: |
Manchester Guardian, 15 October 1955 |
208 |
The Woodstock line: |
The Times, 21 August 1953 |
208 |
The Mumbles line: |
Manchester Guardian, 8 February 1959 |
209 |
Clifton Mill |
David St John Thomas, The Rural Transport Problem (1963) p 28 |
210 |
Harold Watkinson groaned: |
Quoted in Loft, op. cit., p 45 |
213 |
Ridgway obituary: |
Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2002 |
214 |
An exotic private life: |
Loft, op. cit, p. 54 |
214 |
Chocolate brown suits: |
Gourvish, op, cit. p 571 |
215 |
With real affection: |
Hansard, 10 March 1960 |
215 |
The Beeching bombshell: |
Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain (1962) p 537 |
218 |
Brilliantly presented etc: |
Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain Today (1965) p 583 |
218 |
Newspaper reactions: |
Daily Mirror and The Times, 28 March 1963, The Observer, 31 March 1963 |
221 |
I am without a typist: |
Thomas (1976) op. cit. p 45 |
223 |
‘Herculean’ Beeching: |
Alistair Horne, Macmillan 1957-1986 (1989) p 252 |
223 |
Aden, Nyasaland, Katanga: |
Harold Macmillan, At the End of the Day (1973) passim |
225 |
Barbara Preston’s letter: |
The Guardian, 1 April 1964 |
226 |
The thrusting expert: |
Anthony Shrimsley, The First Hundred Days of Harold Wilson (1965) p 106 |
226 |
Wilson’s regret: |
Harold Wilson, The Labour Government 1964-70 (1971) p 240 |
226 |
Castle didn’t rate Fraser: |
Barbara Castle, The Castle Diaries 1964-70 (1984) p 22 |
226 |
And hated Marsh: |
Castle op. cit. p 531 and 683 |
226 |
Marsh hated Mulley: |
Richard Marsh, Off the Rails (1978) p 190 |
228 |
Seven marginals!: |
Quoted by Marsh in Hislop Goes off the Rails, BBC4, 2 October 2008 |
228 |
Raymond’s lament: |
Quoted in Gourvish op. cit. p 359 |
229 |
Reg Maker: |
The Times, 12 August 2008 |
231 |
Whinger Marsh: |
Terry Gourvish, British Rail 1974-97 From Integration to Privatisation (2002) p 48 |
231-2 |
Sniper Beeching: |
The Times, 15 December 1975 |
233 |
Duncraig: |
The Times, 15 December 1975 |
233-4 |
John Welsby: |
Interview with author, 2008 |
234 |
Marsh’s chief whinge: |
Marsh, op. cit. p 191 |
234-5 |
Fowler’s recollections: |
Interview with author, 2008 |
236 |
How relaxing: |
Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2008 |
238 |
Europe’s only profitable railway: |
Wolmar (2007) op. cit. p 296 |
238 |
Cecil Parkinson: |
The Times, 10 October 2008 |
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