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Come the Revolution?

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Neil Walker talks to men on the shopfloor who in the 1960s and 70s found their skills replaced by new technology.
2: Once a Railwayman Always a Railwayman In the language of railwaymen there's an expletive - "Beeching". When Dr Beeching reshaped the railways with his policy of "make it pay or cut it out", he challenged the core of what railwaymen believed in - service over cost.
Producer Julia Shaw

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Talks:
Neil Walker
Producer:
Julia Shaw
Source: Radio Times

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