| Dalmarnock Railway Station
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photo 1967 courtesy Norrie &
mustang . |
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Dalmarnock Road railway station junction of Swanston
Street taken 1967 |
| Older east-enders will remember using
Dalmarnock Station through this frontage when the low level steam trains
were in use before Beeching's axe*. The
circular manhole cover in front of the station is in fact a tramway duct
which was in use before the trams were also axed in 1962. |
| *Beeching
- Dr Richard Beeching was appointed chairman of the newly
formed British Railways Board in June 1961 by the Minister of Transport and
'left' in 1964, during that time the railway system was radically overhauled
with many thousands of tracks being closed. The "Reshaping of British
Railways" in 1963, more than 8,000 miles (12,875 km) of track and 2,000
stations were closed at a cost of nearly 70,000 jobs..
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Railway Stations.... 
