Talk:Gerry Fiennes

I Tried to Run a Railway
It seems that when Fiennes wrote I Tried to Run a Railway, Stanley Raymond (the chairman of the British Railways Board at the time) tried to suppress it - but when it was published, Raymond sacked Fiennes immediately. Within a week, Raymond (who had been appointed in 1965 as Beeching's successor) was himself sacked by Barbara Castle, Minister for Transport. This triggered a change at the top, with Raymond being succeeded by Henry Johnson; but the Transport Act 1968 was soon passed, bringing about more of the changes that Fiennes had criticised in his book. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 09:52, 24 July 2021 (UTC)