When you start a thread at Mudcat, try to remember that you have an international audience. At least the title and the first post should give enough information that all readers will understand what you're talking about.

This BBC News Item says:

"Reversing Dr Beeching" is about the moves taken in Strathclyde to re-open new [rail] lines and link up communities around Glasgow as its population dispersed.

You can hear the program here (click).

Dr. Richard Beeching (1913-1985), then the chairman of British Rail, closed a number of railway lines in Scotland in the 1960s.


-Joe-