>>1080923Dude, I'm an /n/ regular, Beeching is like the fucking antichrist.
You people had a brutal rail network, shame so much of it went the way of the dodo. Nowdays it's gotten more common to turn branch lines into LRT and sheit.
In Spain there are very few branch lines the way you describe them. Just look at the map I posted, you can see the vast majority are main lines.
There is one line that runs from Lleida to a small village, it was supposed to go all the way to France but that never happened. The spanish govt closed the line, but the catalan govt asked for it to be transferred so they could keep it running. Service eventually was cut back, at one time there was one train a day each way. Now they got some new, smaller trains and service is back to a couple of trains a day, and passenger numbers have improved. They're also advertising it for tourism because it runs through some very beautiful scenery. Pic very related.
