In article ,
Richard Dixon writes:
John Hall wrote in
:

In article ,
Richard Dixon writes:

In defence of Mr McElwee he was showing the lack of lines between Western
England down to central France.

I blame Dr Beeching.

That's one's flown over my head John!

In the 1960s he was responsible for closing a lot of lines (of the
railway variety).
--
John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp,
a former director of the Bank of England