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which country?

• masklinn 2y ago
  Pretty much all of them. At least in the west, less sure about the east. France had 70000km of rail around ww1, now it has about 30000. The main (though not only) casualty was the rural narrow gauge lines ("local interest network") which got obliterated by car and low productivity (about 20000km progressively closed from about 1930 to 1960, a handful survive as tourist attractions).
• rkosk 2y ago
  Dunno which country they are in but this has happened in a lot of places. This is a an infamous example in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts Which this politician who owned a major road engineering company was quite involved in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples