The Reshaping of the Stour Valley Line - Welcome When 'The Reshaping of British Railways' was published by British Railways in March 1963, it listed within its pages hundreds of stations nationwide that were considered uneconomic to operate.

#OnThisDay - 6 March 1967, the last direct train ran from #Colchester to #Cambridge via #MarksTey and Sudbury along the Stour Valley Line.

Services beyond #Sudbury ended as part of the infamous #BeechingCuts.

More:

stourline.co.uk

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechin...

oil industry, car industry... road-building folk (see yer chap Marples re #BeechingCuts)