Peter Smith: Self - Former Locomotive Fireman, Somerset and Dorset Railway

Quotes 

• [talking about Dr Beeching who is notorious for recommending the closure of so many of Britain's railways] 

  Peter Smith : The feeling was that they *wanted* it to close.

  Gwyn Richards - Narrator : They *did*. The man who wielded the famous axe, Dr Beeching, said years later, "People ask me now if I'm sorry I closed so many branch lines. But I'm not. I wish we'd been able to close *more*."

  Donald Beale : Instead of electrifying the railways, he electrocuted them.