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Minsters Rail Campaign

@minstersrail.bsky.social

Campaign to reinstate the rail link between York, Beverley & Hull.

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Rail Business UK@railbusinessuk.com · 2w ago

‘I want to help to build a simpler, more unified railway’, says first Chair of Great British Railways https://www.railbusinessuk.com/great-british-railways/2026/10/16/i-want-to-help-to-build-a-simpler-more-unified-railway-says-first-chair-of-great-british-railways/

‘I want to help to build a simpler, more unified railway’, says first Chair of Great British Railways

The government has appointed Chair of Barclays UK plc Sir John Kingman as the first Chair of the future Great British Railways. Announcing the appointment on October 16, the Department for Transport said Kingman would begin his duties the same day, and play a critical role in shaping the design of the new organisation and…

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Philip Taylor@philipjtaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Closed the York to Beverley Railway despite being profitable. Towns and sinuous road infrastructure have faced many development pressures since. No one is laughing here. @minstersrail.bsky.social @jamescon.bsky.social

Mike@mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A lesser known British Railways publication - the Hancock Report of 1963. A PR campaign using one of Britain's then best known comedians to help explain the rationale of the Beeching Report on the reorganisation of the network. #railways #1960s #publicity

The cover to an interesting booklet; issued in 1963 this was one of British Railways attempts to better sell the impacts of the now infamous "Beeching Report" into the reorganisation of the railway system. Dr. Richard Beeching (1913 - 1985) was an industrialist who was brought in by Government in 1961 to restructure British Railways in an effort to stem the massive and growing financial losses accrued by the undertaking. Beeching famously did this by proposing massive closures of lines, removal of what were considered uneconomic services, both passenger and freight, and a managerial restructuring of the Board. Beeching left the railways and returned to ICI in 1965. Much maligned it is also important to recall that his work did ensure that moving forward British Rail had a successful InterCity network along with a better equipped freight network. Back in 1963 it was obviously decided that the story of restructuring, that received a fairly brutal press, needed a publicity boost and so the BRB turned to one of Britain's best known comedians of the day, Tony Hancock (1925 - 1968). In the early 1960s Hancock was probably at his height and this press advert campaign, issued here in booklet form with all eight adverts, takes a look at various of the issues levelled at the railway - serious matters considered with some humour. The introduction tells that the photo shoots took place in the frigid February of 1963 and notes that the locations included the Bristol Pullman, Hampton Court carriage sidings and Waterloo station. The photos are suitably noir and as well as "Anthony Aloysius Hancock", the actor's 'stage' name, also include the infamous Doctor on the cover and in the final advert. The booklet was printed by Lund Humphries. Sadly no photographer is credited. This shows a cigar smoking Hancock shaking hands with the BR chairman.
Philip Taylor@philipjtaylor.bsky.social · 7mo ago

RIP. Big supporter of @minstersrail.bsky.social. He told me his wife used the line regularly before it closed in November 1965.

Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳@ancestralenq.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tributes paid to Lord Chris Haskins, East Yorkshire businessman & former chair of Northern Foods who has died age 88. 👇 Lord Chris HaskinsBBC News - Tributes paid to Lord Chris Haskins, 'a true Humber champion' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...