Reviving rural railways with Monocab

Britain’s railway network is a fraction of what it was a century ago. With the rise of private motoring and the building of the road network, railways were less important – and less glamorous too in the new age of the motorcar. The network was trimmed and consolidated.

Most notorious was the programme of cuts known as the ‘Beeching Axe’, which cut back services on branch lines. Between the mid-60s and the mid-80s, the country lost a quarter of its rail network and half its stations. The slim...