In the 1960s Dr Beeching [with some just cause it has to be said] was a much maligned figure. Flanders and Swann wrote a song called "Slow Train" which laments the closure of so many stations [lyrics here for anyone interested] http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/anotherhat_slow.html ] and this little ditty from the TV sitcom "Oh Dr Beeching" which is rather more tongue in cheek about the whole affair! "Oh! Dr Beeching! What have you done? There once was lots of trains to catch, but soon there'll be none, I'll have to buy a bike, 'cos I can't afford a car, Oh, Dr Beeching, what a naughty man you are! Oh, Dr Beeching, what am I to do? The trains have all gone missing and I'm busting for the loo, I'll do it in a shrub, 'cos it's hidden from the road, Oh, Dr Beeching, I've just piddled on a toad!" As I mentioned in the last post Southwater was on Beeching's hit list and lost its one in 1966, but forty