Rural lines losing tons of money and nobody wanted to pay to keep them open, more or less
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The difference in Japan was that when the ax finally fell (1987), there was no public sentiment to "move on from the rail era"
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Whereas in England (or much more significantly, the USA), the idea was that trains were the past, and they'd all be closed soon
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Interestingly, Japan *also* thought trains were going the way of the dodo...back in the 1950s. Opening the Shinkansen reversed that.
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But it was a very difficult, uphill battle to get the Shinkansen built, and the entire time, the team behind it was mocked relentlessly.
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