I know that advertisements can be misleading but this one, a vintage railway poster, is actually true to life.
This was Beechings second report as British Railways Board chairman, and in it he outlined the countries transport needs for the next quarter of a century. The report followed his first controversial review of the state of Britain's railways that had been published in 1963. In that report he said the railway system was uneconomic and under-used, and recommended that a quarter of the railway system should be shut down.