They should be careful what they wish for - step foward trans-pennine ale trail... (post-Clarke & May)
Its relative isolation, from a transport point of view, may be its saving grace. People may end up raising a glass to Dr Beeching, for the lack of a train station in the town.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.