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I was in a village working in a very nice through terrace house compartively large maybe twenty or so mid victorian residences in a isolated row ........ quality houses originally and still now. Idyllic location meadows at the front woods at the back down the road it led to a more built up part of the village. It got me to thinking that in the past the original inhabitants must have travelled here by horse .........the seven or so miles to the city .........ah no there used to be a train station within a ten minute walk ......Obviously long gone. Disussing the travel arrangements 150 years or so ago with the lady that lived there and remarking they must have have used the local train ....she remarked " and they call it progress"
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the branch lines still existed ( yes naysayers we know it costs money unaffordable blah blah blah ) virtually no congestion reduced traffic on the roads, cleaner air, less noise.
The rail network this country had was once fantastic. The car is now rendering itself useless.
Progress ? Hardly and that's just travel ........when I grew up everybody knew everybody locally that's hardly the case now !
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-ROBIN-PAGE-decline-Cambridgeshire-idyll.html
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the branch lines still existed ( yes naysayers we know it costs money unaffordable blah blah blah ) virtually no congestion reduced traffic on the roads, cleaner air, less noise.
The rail network this country had was once fantastic. The car is now rendering itself useless.
Progress ? Hardly and that's just travel ........when I grew up everybody knew everybody locally that's hardly the case now !
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-ROBIN-PAGE-decline-Cambridgeshire-idyll.html