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Description: | Harmeet Lehal came to London at the start of the 1960s when the road traffic in and around London was becoming a real problem.
The economic boom had increased private car ownership. Traffic was made worse by increasing numbers of commercial vehicles.
This was caused in part by the closure of thousands of miles of train track that had been identified as unprofitable by the British Railways Board (B.R.B.'s) Beeching Plan, named after the B.R.B. Chairman, Dr Richard Beeching. Many people now think the closures have had a detrimental effect on transport and industry.
Working for London Transport, Harmeet saw the effects of the railway closures. In his opinion, the impact was bad. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1960-1969 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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