Comments by "" (@Bungle-UK) on "Passengers ride new Northumberland line for first time in 60 years" video.

  1. Northern can’t manage to reliably run on their existing routes. Nationalisation at its worst.
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  2. Beeching didn’t close a single station or mile of track. Government ministers did.
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  3.  @SirHumpyA  how would reopening branch lines that were never well used help anything?
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  4.  @tomearle4599 racist?
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  5.  @JackMellor498  Because Gareth Dennis isn’t biased at all 🙄🙄
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  6.  @winco68  oh dear. Barbara Castle, the following Labour minister, signed off on the majority of closures, not Marples, but don’t let the truth get in the way 🙄
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  7. @ utter nonsense. The Labour government was elected on a promise to halt the closures, but did the exact opposite, signing off on more closures than Marples, including some lines not listed by Beeching. That was a choice they didn’t need to make. To suggest Castle couldn’t have decided differently is laughable.
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  8.  @BenRattigan you think a minor railway that will mostly transport fresh air has the same value as six new hospitals? How odd.
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  9.  @SirHumpyA  no, it’s comparing the equivalent cost in order to explore the value for money of the project.
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