 In the event, the closures failed to produce the hoped for savings, or to restore the railways to profitability.In 1965, Beeching issued a second, less well-known, report "The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes", widely known as "Beeching II", which singled out lines that were believed to be worthy of continued large-scale investment.This did not recommend closures as such, but outlined a 3,000-mile "network for development".