It has been announced that 4,000 miles of railway line and 2,000 stations will close.

First broadcast: 27 March 1963

The Beeching Report has been published, announcing that 4,000 miles of railway line and 2,000 stations will be closed.

Against footage of steam trains rushing past, some of the most romantic, beautiful, brutal, strange and comic station names are read out as testimony to "the threads that bound the nation together".