
Can you hear us Dr Beeching?
A funny title you may think but I was recently reading an article that made me aware of proposals for a privately owned single track railway that would ply between Barnstaple and Braunton along the line of the old railway that existed till 1970 when it was axed under the plans of Dr Beeching and, following a failed attempt to preserve the line in 1975, it was progressively upgraded to a path/cycle track and dubbed part of the Tarka Trail. http://www.combe-rail.org.uk/ So ther