| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The report was a reaction to significant losses which had begun in the 1950s as the expansion in road transport began to attract passengers and goods from the railways; losses which continued to bedevil British Railways despite the introduction of the railway Modernisation Plan of 1955.[2] Beeching proposed that only drastic action would save the railways from increasing losses in the future.
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