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1963: TRIBUTE to CLOSED RAILWAY STATIONS | Tonight | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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3:03Now Playing"Today these stations are small and remote and unprofitable, but 100 years ago, they were the threads that bound a nation together."
In the wake of the publication of the Beeching report, Tonight's Derek Hart narrates a short, poetic tribute to some of the 2,000 railway stations that have been earmarked for closure.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Wednesday 27 March, 1963.
NB: This version has been uploaded to replace an earlier version that featured an audio glitch.
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