Rail usage in the UK

With the Beeching Cuts and general increase in car/bus usage etc since the 1960s, passenger train has decreased in the UK. I was wondering how to get it so that people use trains as a method of travel, both as absolute numbers and percentage wise by 2019. Two options come to mind: The first one is obvious, stop the Beeching Cuts or any equivalent from happening and/or some sort of massive campaign to encourage public use of trains.
 

Marc

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With the Beeching Cuts and general increase in car/bus usage etc since the 1960s, passenger train has decreased in the UK. I was wondering how to get it so that people use trains as a method of travel, both as absolute numbers and percentage wise by 2019. Two options come to mind: The first one is obvious, stop the Beeching Cuts or any equivalent from happening and/or some sort of massive campaign to encourage public use of trains.

From what I understand, the Beeching Cuts really were the major hammer blow.
The opposite direction - which the UK just wasn't willing to afford - would have been updating track and trains, and even adding some lines. A process of modernization that occurred in Western Europe.
Sadly, history is as much about bad choices as anything...
 
With the Beeching Cuts and general increase in car/bus usage etc since the 1960s, passenger train has decreased in the UK. I was wondering how to get it so that people use trains as a method of travel, both as absolute numbers and percentage wise by 2019. Two options come to mind: The first one is obvious, stop the Beeching Cuts or any equivalent from happening and/or some sort of massive campaign to encourage public use of trains.
You do know that more passenger journeys are made today by rail per year than in the 1920's. Percentage wise however it isn't as much. There has been a rail renaissance though since the 1990's.

As an aside more passengers use Birmingham New Street Station per year than use the the whole of the Amtrak system in America.
 

Devvy

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More passengers use the rail system now then at the height of usage in the early 20th century, through somewhat of mediocre survival over failure of the system. The Beeching cuts were also a reflex action to the huge amount of wasted money in the 1950s on modernising the system. Get that right or even just better, and you improve the financial situation of BR and thus many more lines stay open, as erm, *cough*, I’m writing about in my TL https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/12-08-redux.454571/. Sorry for the plug :)
 
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