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"ref": "2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38",
"text": "Beeching's proposals struck at the heart of the railway industry's ethos and what it meant to be a railway worker.",
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"To attack the central or most important part of (something)."
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